The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 3Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... received a letter of Clarissa's mar- riage . The lady who gave me this account , being far gone in poetry and romance , told me , " if I would give her an epitaph , she would take care to have it placed on his tomb ; which she herself ...
... received a letter of Clarissa's mar- riage . The lady who gave me this account , being far gone in poetry and romance , told me , " if I would give her an epitaph , she would take care to have it placed on his tomb ; which she herself ...
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... not be surprised therewith . Which concludes , though by many years absence since I saw you at Stafford , unknown , Sir , your most humble servant , JOHN THRIFTY . " I received this message with less surprise than I believe No 96 . TATLER .
... not be surprised therewith . Which concludes , though by many years absence since I saw you at Stafford , unknown , Sir , your most humble servant , JOHN THRIFTY . " I received this message with less surprise than I believe No 96 . TATLER .
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Alexander Chalmers. I received this message with less surprise than I believe Mr. Thrifty imagined ; for I knew the good company too well to feel any palpitations at their approach : but I was in very great concern how I should adjust ...
Alexander Chalmers. I received this message with less surprise than I believe Mr. Thrifty imagined ; for I knew the good company too well to feel any palpitations at their approach : but I was in very great concern how I should adjust ...
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... received yours , and am glad yourself and your wife are in good health , with all the rest of my friends . Our battalion suffered more than I could wish in the action . But who can withstand fate ? Poor Richard Stevenson had his fate ...
... received yours , and am glad yourself and your wife are in good health , with all the rest of my friends . Our battalion suffered more than I could wish in the action . But who can withstand fate ? Poor Richard Stevenson had his fate ...
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... received a letter from a friend in the country , wherein he acquaints me , " that two or three men of the town are got among them , and have brought down particular words and phrases , which were never before in those parts . " He ...
... received a letter from a friend in the country , wherein he acquaints me , " that two or three men of the town are got among them , and have brought down particular words and phrases , which were never before in those parts . " He ...
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Page 104 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows...
Page 125 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 169 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 185 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 125 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 152 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 80 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 80 - Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 63 - Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks, which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the mismanagements of John Hickathrift, find fault with the passionate temper in Bevis of Southampton, and loved St.