The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: ...H. Lintot, D. Midwinter, J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, T. Longman [and 8 others in London], 1743 |
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq Revised and Corrected by the ... Sir Richard Steele,Joseph Addison Visos knygos peržiūra - 1720 |
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Advices againſt alfo anſwer Army becauſe Bickerstaff Bufinefs Cafe called Caufe Coffee-boufe Company Confideration Converfation Court Croud Defign defire Difcourfe Drefs Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough Enemy fafe faid fame fecond feems feen felf felves fent ferved feven fhall fhew fhould fince firft fome foon fpeak France Friend ftill fuch fure Gentleman give greateſt Hague himſelf Honour Houfe Humour Ifaac Inftant James's juft June June 18 juſt King Lady laft laſt lefs Letters loft Love Lover Mafter Majefty Manner Minifter moft Monfieur moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary never obferved Occafion Olivenza Pacolet paffed Paffion Perfons Place pleafed pleaſe Pleaſure prefent pretend pretty Fellow Prince publick racter Reafon refolved reprefented Senfe ſhe thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion Torcy Tournay Town Treaty Troops ufual underſtand uſed vifit White's whofe whole World zebe
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210 psl. - ... 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.
210 psl. - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there be players that I have seen play and heard others praise, and that highly...
207 psl. - 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,
248 psl. - Shakspeare, that his women made so small a figure in his dialogues; but it certainly is, that he drew women as they then were in life; for that sex had not in those days that freedom in conversation; and their characters were only, that they were mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives.
286 psl. - ... therefore he also retired. I was extremely troubled to see the glorious mart of London left with no other guardian but him of credit. But Pacolet told me, ' that traders had nothing to do with the honour or conscience of their correspondents...
205 psl. - To my knowledge of this very hat it may be added, that the covering of straw was never used among the Jews, since it was demanded of them to make bricks without it. Therefore this is really nothing but, under the specious pretence of learning and antiquities, to impose upon the world.
277 psl. - ... church, and practised, in honour of each other, all the remarkable particularities which are usual for persons who admire one another, and are contemptible to the rest of the world. These two lovers seemed as much made for each other as Adam and Eve, and all pronounced it a match of nature's own making; but the night before the nuptials, so universally approved, the younger sister, envious of the good fortune even of her sister, who had been present at most of their interviews, and had an equal...
206 psl. - ... the humour of taking snuff, and looking dirty about the mouth by way of ornament. My method is, to dive to the bottom of a sore before I pretend to apply a remedy. For this reason, I sat by an eminent story-teller and politician, who takes half an ounce in five seconds, and has mortgaged a pretty tenement near the town, merely to improve and dung his brains with this prolific powder. I observed this gentleman, the other...
150 psl. - ... pretences to credit and reputation amongst men. But I must confess, when I consider what I am going about, and run over in my imagination all the endless...
288 psl. - Lust in their writings are Very instructive. Love is a beauteous blind child, adorned with a quiver and a bow, which he plays with, and shoots around him, without design or direction ; to intimate to us, that the person beloved has no intention to give us the anxieties we meet with, but that the beauties of a worthy object are like the charms of a lovely infant ; they cannot but attract your concern...