The Bee: And Other EssaysJ.M. Dent and Company, Aldine House, 1903 - 281 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... possessed of the secret at once of writ- ing and sleeping . During the course of this paper , therefore , all the wit and learning I have are heartily at his service ; which , if , after so candid a con- fession , he should ...
... possessed of the secret at once of writ- ing and sleeping . During the course of this paper , therefore , all the wit and learning I have are heartily at his service ; which , if , after so candid a con- fession , he should ...
Pagina 16
... possessed of , Septimius in a few years arrived at the highest dignities of the state , and was constituted the city judge , or prætor . T : In the meantime Alcander not only felt the pain of being separated from his friend and his ...
... possessed of , Septimius in a few years arrived at the highest dignities of the state , and was constituted the city judge , or prætor . T : In the meantime Alcander not only felt the pain of being separated from his friend and his ...
Pagina 27
... possessed of this unaccountable passion levelling all distinc- tion in dress . The lady of no quality travels fast behind the lady of some quality , and a woman of sixty is as gaudy as her granddaughter . A friend . Cousin of mine , a ...
... possessed of this unaccountable passion levelling all distinc- tion in dress . The lady of no quality travels fast behind the lady of some quality , and a woman of sixty is as gaudy as her granddaughter . A friend . Cousin of mine , a ...
Pagina 41
... possessed this happiness of temper in the highest degree . As he was a man of gallantry , and despised all that wore the pedantic appearance of philosophy , wherever pleasure was to be sold , he was generally fore- most to raise the ...
... possessed this happiness of temper in the highest degree . As he was a man of gallantry , and despised all that wore the pedantic appearance of philosophy , wherever pleasure was to be sold , he was generally fore- most to raise the ...
Pagina 57
... possessed of , was , at last , however , the occasion of her ruin . The person who then possessed the patriar- chate of Alexandria , was equally remarkable for his violence , cruelty , and pride . Conducted by of History an ill ...
... possessed of , was , at last , however , the occasion of her ruin . The person who then possessed the patriar- chate of Alexandria , was equally remarkable for his violence , cruelty , and pride . Conducted by of History an ill ...
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acquainted actor admiration agreeable Alcander amusement appeared Asem Bartholomew Fair beauty Bidderman Boar's character Cibber club comedy continued Covent Garden cried Asem custom devil distress dress drinking Drury Lane eloquence endeavoured entertainment Essays eyes Falstaff favour folly fond fortune frugality Genius gentleman George Selwyn give going Goldsmith hand happiness Head humour Hypatia imitate justice king lady laugh laws learning letter lived Magazine mankind manner merit merry nature never observe occasion Olinda once passion perceived philosophers played Player pleasing pleasure polite present R. B. Sheridan rapture replied Sabinus Samson Gideon says scarce seemed seldom Septimius society soon Spectator spider St James's Park stage story Strolling T. W. Robertson tankard taste tavern tell Tenterden theatre thought tion Vicar of Wakefield vice virtue Voltaire vulgar Wakefield Temple Classics whole wisdom World Temple Classics young
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Pagina 246 - ... have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts ; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Pagina 247 - If those pieces are denied the name of comedies, yet call them by any other name, and if they are delightful, they are good. Their success, it will be said, is a mark of their merit, and it is only abridging our happiness to deny us an inlet to amusement These objections, however, are rather specious than solid. It is true, that amusement is a great object of the...
Pagina 248 - It is of all others the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental comedy.
Pagina 80 - ... irreparable : wherefore the cobweb was now entirely forsaken, and a new one begun, which was completed in the usual time. " I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider could furnish ; wherefore I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising.
Pagina 198 - Such were the reflections that naturally arose while I sat at the Boar's Head Tavern, still kept at Eastcheap. Here, by a pleasant fire, in the very room where old Sir John Falstaff cracked his jokes, in the very chair which was sometimes honoured by prince Henry, and sometimes polluted by his immoral, merry companions, I sat and ruminated on the follies of youth ; wished to be young again : but was resolved to make the best of life while it lasted, and now and then compared past and present times...
Pagina 62 - Justice may be defined that virtue which impels us to give to every person what is his due. In this extended sense of the word, it comprehends the practice of every virtue which reason prescribes or society should expect.
Pagina 48 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Pagina 246 - ... a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of Sentimental Comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece. These Comedies have had of late great success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible.
Pagina 81 - The insect I am now describing lived three years : every year it changed its skin and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and, upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Pagina 132 - Street ; it was the topic in every coffeehouse, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea ; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We have fished up very little gold that I can learn ; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.