The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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... young Lady who looked up at him ; away goes the coach , and the young Gentleman pulled off his night- cap , and instead of rubbing his gums , as he ought to do , out of the window until about four of the clock , fits him down and spoke ...
... young Lady who looked up at him ; away goes the coach , and the young Gentleman pulled off his night- cap , and instead of rubbing his gums , as he ought to do , out of the window until about four of the clock , fits him down and spoke ...
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... young Gentleman of a great estate , fell defperately in love with a great Beauty of very high quality , but as ill - natured as long flattery and an habitual felf - will could make her . However , my young Spark ventures upon her like a ...
... young Gentleman of a great estate , fell defperately in love with a great Beauty of very high quality , but as ill - natured as long flattery and an habitual felf - will could make her . However , my young Spark ventures upon her like a ...
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... young , Had wealth and charms - but then the had a tongue ! From morn to night th ' eternal larum run , Which often loft those hearts her eyes had won . Sir JOHN was fmitten , and confefs'd his flame , Sigh'd out the ufual time , then ...
... young , Had wealth and charms - but then the had a tongue ! From morn to night th ' eternal larum run , Which often loft those hearts her eyes had won . Sir JOHN was fmitten , and confefs'd his flame , Sigh'd out the ufual time , then ...
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... , who , as Mr. STEELE infinuates , fo reduced the French , that they had now neither more young men to go to war , nor more ready money to carry to market . letters letters agree , that there is fo good an under- 20 N ° 20 THE TATLER .
... , who , as Mr. STEELE infinuates , fo reduced the French , that they had now neither more young men to go to war , nor more ready money to carry to market . letters letters agree , that there is fo good an under- 20 N ° 20 THE TATLER .
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... young people a turn of fenfe and breed , ing . But as I have fet up for a weekly hifto- rian , I refolve to be a faithful one , and there- fore take this public occafion to admonish a young Nobleman , who came fluftered into the box ...
... young people a turn of fenfe and breed , ing . But as I have fet up for a weekly hifto- rian , I refolve to be a faithful one , and there- fore take this public occafion to admonish a young Nobleman , who came fluftered into the box ...
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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...