The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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... persons at the helm are fo ufeful , and in themselves of fuch weight , that their ftrict alliance muft needs tend to the univerfal profperity of the people . CAMILLO , it feems , prefides over the deliberations of ftate ; and is fo ...
... persons at the helm are fo ufeful , and in themselves of fuch weight , that their ftrict alliance muft needs tend to the univerfal profperity of the people . CAMILLO , it feems , prefides over the deliberations of ftate ; and is fo ...
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... person of the first quality is arrived in the Low Countries from France , in order to be a Plenipotentiary in an enfuing treaty of peace . Letters from France acknowledge , that Mon- fieur Bernard has made no higher offers of fatif ...
... person of the first quality is arrived in the Low Countries from France , in order to be a Plenipotentiary in an enfuing treaty of peace . Letters from France acknowledge , that Mon- fieur Bernard has made no higher offers of fatif ...
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... person of a second value , and fubordinate to him , who could hear his afflie- tions , carry an inchantment for his wounds , hold his helmet when he was eating ( if ever he did eat ) , or in his abfence , when he was retired to his ...
... person of a second value , and fubordinate to him , who could hear his afflie- tions , carry an inchantment for his wounds , hold his helmet when he was eating ( if ever he did eat ) , or in his abfence , when he was retired to his ...
Side 242
... person that fhall come publicly abroad " in a fantastical habit , contrary to the present " mode and fashion , except Don Diego Dif " mallo , or any other out of poverty , shall " have his name and dress inserted in our next . " " N. B. ...
... person that fhall come publicly abroad " in a fantastical habit , contrary to the present " mode and fashion , except Don Diego Dif " mallo , or any other out of poverty , shall " have his name and dress inserted in our next . " " N. B. ...
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... person who had fallen under his displeasure , and was diverted from his purpofe by what STEELE faid to him on the subject . Some of this young officer's companions ( for they cannot be styled his friends ) led him afterwards into a ...
... person who had fallen under his displeasure , and was diverted from his purpofe by what STEELE faid to him on the subject . Some of this young officer's companions ( for they cannot be styled his friends ) led him afterwards into a ...
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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...