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... Manners , ' and CAS- " TIGLIONE in his Courtier , ' two books yet " celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance . " This fpecies of inftruction was continued , " and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among " whom LA BRUYERE'S Manners ...
... Manners , ' and CAS- " TIGLIONE in his Courtier , ' two books yet " celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance . " This fpecies of inftruction was continued , " and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among " whom LA BRUYERE'S Manners ...
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... Manners of the Age . ' " But to fay that they united the plans of two " or three eminent writers , is to give them but " a fmall part of their due praife ; they fuper- " added literature and criticifin , and fometimes " towered far ...
... Manners of the Age . ' " But to fay that they united the plans of two " or three eminent writers , is to give them but " a fmall part of their due praife ; they fuper- " added literature and criticifin , and fometimes " towered far ...
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Sir Richard Steele. fhould obferve upon the manners of the pleasur- able , as well as the bufy part of mankind . To make this generally read , it feemed the most proper method to form it by way of a Letter of Intelligence , confifting of ...
Sir Richard Steele. fhould obferve upon the manners of the pleasur- able , as well as the bufy part of mankind . To make this generally read , it feemed the most proper method to form it by way of a Letter of Intelligence , confifting of ...
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... , the whole art seems to be refolved into that one motive of speaking , fin- The Duke of Marlborough . cerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the cerity xliv ORIGINAL DEDICATION pect to see you in the House of Lords as ...
... , the whole art seems to be refolved into that one motive of speaking , fin- The Duke of Marlborough . cerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the cerity xliv ORIGINAL DEDICATION pect to see you in the House of Lords as ...
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Sir Richard Steele. cerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt gefture , and the affumed concern , are impotent helps to perfuafion , in comparison of the honeft countenance of him who utters what he really means . From ...
Sir Richard Steele. cerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt gefture , and the affumed concern , are impotent helps to perfuafion , in comparison of the honeft countenance of him who utters what he really means . From ...
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Side 398 - 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.
Side 400 - 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. 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...
Side 399 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 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.
Side 400 - ... 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.
Side 201 - Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great writer, and got himself a reputation from plagues and famines ; by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has lately done by the sword. In every dearth of news, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled.
Side 411 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Side 5 - ... bosom. In a word, his attention to any thing but his passion was utterly gone. He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon, since the moment he first saw her.
Side 151 - Poets, for my raillery upon his work ; though I aimed at no more in that examination, but to convince him, and all men of genius, of the folly of laying themselves out on such plans as are below their characters. I hope too it was done without...
Side 304 - ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.
Side 168 - The little triumph he appeared in, when he got such a trifling stock of ready money, though he had ventured so great sums with indifference, increased my admiration. But Pacolet began to talk to me. "Mr. Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that...