The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Marshal Villars is at the head of those troops ; and has given the generals under his command all possible assurances , that he will turn the fate of the war to the advantage of his master . They write from the Hague , of the seventh Q ...
... Marshal Villars is at the head of those troops ; and has given the generals under his command all possible assurances , that he will turn the fate of the war to the advantage of his master . They write from the Hague , of the seventh Q ...
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... Marshal de Villars has assembled the French forces between Lens , La Bassee , and Douay . Yesterday morning Sir John Norris , with the quadron under his command , sailed from the Downs r Holland . From my own Apartment , June 3 . I have ...
... Marshal de Villars has assembled the French forces between Lens , La Bassee , and Douay . Yesterday morning Sir John Norris , with the quadron under his command , sailed from the Downs r Holland . From my own Apartment , June 3 . I have ...
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... Marshal de Villars was still on the plain of Lenz ; and it is said the duke of Vendosme is appointed to command in conjunction with that general . Advices from Paris say , Monsieur Voison is made secretary of state , upon Monsieur ...
... Marshal de Villars was still on the plain of Lenz ; and it is said the duke of Vendosme is appointed to command in conjunction with that general . Advices from Paris say , Monsieur Voison is made secretary of state , upon Monsieur ...
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... marshal Villars was so confident that we designed to attack him , that he had drawn great part of the garrison of the place which is now invested into the field : for which reason , it is presumed , it must submit within a small time ...
... marshal Villars was so confident that we designed to attack him , that he had drawn great part of the garrison of the place which is now invested into the field : for which reason , it is presumed , it must submit within a small time ...
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... Marshal Villars had drawn a considerable body out of the garrison of Tournay , to reinforce his army , marched towards that place , and came before it early in the morning of the twenty - seventh . As soon as they came into that ground ...
... Marshal Villars had drawn a considerable body out of the garrison of Tournay , to reinforce his army , marched towards that place , and came before it early in the morning of the twenty - seventh . As soon as they came into that ground ...
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Sida 251 - 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, 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.
Sida 251 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Sida 251 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. 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.
Sida 308 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Sida 250 - 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.
Sida xiv - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Sida xlvi - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Sida 250 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Sida 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Sida 251 - 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; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.