The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Strana xiv
James Ferguson. so eminently tended to enlighten and adorn the path of common life , and form the manners of our nation . Of the origin of this species of writing the celebrated Dr. JOHNSON has given a sketch , which , though written in ...
James Ferguson. so eminently tended to enlighten and adorn the path of common life , and form the manners of our nation . Of the origin of this species of writing the celebrated Dr. JOHNSON has given a sketch , which , though written in ...
Strana xv
... common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak , or to be silent ; how to re- fuse , or how to comply . We had many books to teach us our ...
... common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak , or to be silent ; how to re- fuse , or how to comply . We had many books to teach us our ...
Strana xxiii
... common news- paper . Its leading purpose , however , was to improve the public morals and manners by holding up to ridicule fashionable follies and vices of every kind , and inculcating just and liberal sentiments on common topics ...
... common news- paper . Its leading purpose , however , was to improve the public morals and manners by holding up to ridicule fashionable follies and vices of every kind , and inculcating just and liberal sentiments on common topics ...
Strana xxxiv
... even in the most civilized state of society , who , by inherit- ing property , enjoy an exemption from personal labour adequate to the pursuit ; neither among those privileged is it common to find many who possess xxxiv HISTORICAL AND.
... even in the most civilized state of society , who , by inherit- ing property , enjoy an exemption from personal labour adequate to the pursuit ; neither among those privileged is it common to find many who possess xxxiv HISTORICAL AND.
Strana xxxv
... common mechanic ; it will be in vain that attention is called to philological inquiry or studied exhortation . On men busied in the acquirement of wealth , merely for its own sake , or revelling in the grossest sensuali- ties , no ...
... common mechanic ; it will be in vain that attention is called to philological inquiry or studied exhortation . On men busied in the acquirement of wealth , merely for its own sake , or revelling in the grossest sensuali- ties , no ...
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Strana 251 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Strana 251 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Strana 251 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Strana 308 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Strana 250 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Strana xiv - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Strana xlvi - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Strana 250 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Strana 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Strana 251 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.