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... stage . It was repeated thirty - five nights in succession , amidst the re- sounding plaudits both of the Whigs and the Tories . Panegyrics were written in honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was trans- lated into ...
... stage . It was repeated thirty - five nights in succession , amidst the re- sounding plaudits both of the Whigs and the Tories . Panegyrics were written in honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was trans- lated into ...
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... stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better under- stood by him than Littleton or Coke . The father sends up every post , questions relating to marri- age - articles , leases , and tenures in the neighbour- hood ; all which questions ...
... stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better under- stood by him than Littleton or Coke . The father sends up every post , questions relating to marri- age - articles , leases , and tenures in the neighbour- hood ; all which questions ...
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... stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining toge- ther inconsistencies , and making the decorations partly real , and partly imaginary . I would recom- mend what I have here said to the directors , as well as to the admirers of our ...
... stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining toge- ther inconsistencies , and making the decorations partly real , and partly imaginary . I would recom- mend what I have here said to the directors , as well as to the admirers of our ...
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... stage might be as much infested with mice , as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it ; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house . And , indeed , I can not blame him ; for , as he said very ...
... stage might be as much infested with mice , as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it ; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house . And , indeed , I can not blame him ; for , as he said very ...
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... stage would be supplied with lions at the public expense , during the whole session . Many likewise were the con- jectures of the treatment which this lion was to meet with from the hands of signior Nicolini ; some supposed that he was ...
... stage would be supplied with lions at the public expense , during the whole session . Many likewise were the con- jectures of the treatment which this lion was to meet with from the hands of signior Nicolini ; some supposed that he was ...
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Seite 30 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Seite 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 31 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Seite 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Seite 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Seite 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
Seite 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
Seite 27 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Seite 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.