The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Volume 1John Nutt, and sold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall., 1712 |
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... Manner : All Accounts of Gallantry , Pleasure , and En- tertainment , shall be under the Article of White's Chocolate - houfe ; Poetry under that of Will's Coffee - houfe : Learning , under the Title of Græ- eian ; Foreign and Domeftick ...
... Manner : All Accounts of Gallantry , Pleasure , and En- tertainment , shall be under the Article of White's Chocolate - houfe ; Poetry under that of Will's Coffee - houfe : Learning , under the Title of Græ- eian ; Foreign and Domeftick ...
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... Manner wholly new and un- known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans , where- in he is but faintly imitated in the Tranflations of the Modern Italian Opera's . St. James's Coffee - houfe , April 11 . Letters from the Hague of the 16th fay ...
... Manner wholly new and un- known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans , where- in he is but faintly imitated in the Tranflations of the Modern Italian Opera's . St. James's Coffee - houfe , April 11 . Letters from the Hague of the 16th fay ...
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... Manner of pursuing Women was the best Recommendation at Court . To which only it is to be imputed , that a Gentle ... Manners of the Court he lived in , by , a Virtuous Character in his fine Gentleman , as he would show his Ig- norance ...
... Manner of pursuing Women was the best Recommendation at Court . To which only it is to be imputed , that a Gentle ... Manners of the Court he lived in , by , a Virtuous Character in his fine Gentleman , as he would show his Ig- norance ...
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... Manner of Play , I'declined the Offer . Another advifed me , for want of Money , to fet up my Coach and practise Phyfick , but having been bred a Scholar , I feared 1 jhould not fucceed that Way neither ; therefore refolved to go on in ...
... Manner of Play , I'declined the Offer . Another advifed me , for want of Money , to fet up my Coach and practise Phyfick , but having been bred a Scholar , I feared 1 jhould not fucceed that Way neither ; therefore refolved to go on in ...
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... Manner that looks artlefs , and innocent of the Torments fhe gives ; Chloe drawn with a Livelinefs that fhows fhe is con- fcious , but not affected , of her Perfections . Clariffa is a Shepherdefs ; Chloe a Country Girl . I must own ...
... Manner that looks artlefs , and innocent of the Torments fhe gives ; Chloe drawn with a Livelinefs that fhows fhe is con- fcious , but not affected , of her Perfections . Clariffa is a Shepherdefs ; Chloe a Country Girl . I must own ...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: ... Sir Richard Steele,Joseph Addison Visualização completa - 1743 |
The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: Revised and Corrected by the ... Sir Richard Steele,Joseph Addison Visualização completa - 1720 |
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Página 35 - They had spent whole months thus, one injuring, the other complaining; when in the midst of this rage towards each other, they were commanded upon the attack of the castle, where the corporal received a shot in the thigh, and fell; the French pressing on, and he expecting to be trampled to death, called out to his enemy, "Ah, Valentine! Can you leave me here?
Página 35 - Ah, Valentine ! can you leave me here ?'• Valentine immediately ran back, and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought him through all that danger as far as the Abbey of...
Página 250 - However low and poor the taking of snuff argues a man to be in his own stock of thoughts, or means to employ his brains and his fingers; yet there is a poorer creature in the world than he, and this is a borrower of snuff; a fellow that keeps no box of his own, but is always asking others for a pinch. Such poor rogues put me always in mind of a common phrase among school-boys when they are composing their exercise, who run to an upper scholar, and cry,
Página 213 - He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book : when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings. His way of thinking is...
Página 17 - After this declaration, if a fine lady thinks fit to giggle at church, or a great beau come in drunk to a play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing paper. For, merely as a well-bred man, I cannot bear these enormities.
Página 254 - ... 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.
Página 16 - Homer, and the design of it, is a good representation of the age in which that comedy was written ; at which time love and wenching were the business of life, and the gallant manner of pursuing women was the best recommendation at Court.
Página 8 - Gentleman of a great estate fell desperately in love with a great Beauty of very high quality, but as ill-natured as long flattery and an habitual self-will could make her. However, my young Spark ventures upon her like a man of quality, without being acquainted with her, or having ever saluted her, until it was a crime to kiss any woman else.
Página 142 - I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems ; the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating hemp.
Página 9 - This, said he, I gave ten guineas for. The virtue of the enchanted liquor (said he that sold it) is such, that if the woman you marry proves a scold (which, it seems, my dear niece, is your misfortune; as it was your good mother's before you), let her hold three spoonfuls in her mouth for a full half hour after you come home...