The Life of Richard Steele, Količina 1Houghton Mifflin, 1889 |
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Stran 244 - Montague, Lord Cowper, and Lord Halifax—Steele states in a few words the aim of the Tatler: "The general purpose of this paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Stran 276 - of September next ensuing the date of these presents Then this obligation to be void, Or else to remain in full force." After hearing this, Steele said that Tilden ought not to maintain his action against him, because after the drawing up of that bond, to wit, on the
Stran 314 - ambitious to have it said of me that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at the tea-tables and in coffeehouses
Stran 322 - Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave him long ago for his Tatlers, about an Indian supposed to write his Travels into England. I repent he ever had it. I intended to have written a book on that subject. I believe he has spent it all
Stran 343 - and ruminating upon the employments in which men of wit exercise themselves. It was said of Sir Charles, who breathed his last in this room, " Sedley has that prevailing gentle art, Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart; Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire Between declining virtue and desire, Till
Stran 186 - A thousand Torments dwell about Thee, Yet who would Live to Live without Thee ? Methinks I could write a Volume to You, but all the Language on earth would fail in saying how much, and with what disinterested passion, I am Ever Y™, RICH
Stran 331 - genius : they both agreed in wanting money in spite of all their friends, and would have wanted it, if their hereditary lands had been as extensive as their imagination ; yet each of them was so formed for happiness, it is a pity he was not immortal." Mr. Morrison's possession, addressed to Addison, and dated Wortley, 28th July
Stran 355 - I waked this morning : yet, you will see, it was not so absolutely inspiration, but that I had in my head not only the verses of Adrian, but the fine fragment of Sappho, &c. This all seems clear enough. Steele asked for the poem only two days before the Spectator came to an end, so that the
Stran 174 - Language to Ladies, but You have a mind elevated above the Giddy motions of a Sex insnar'd by Flattery, and misled by a False and short adoration into a solid and long contempt. Beauty, my fairest Creature, palls in the possession, but I Love also Your mind; Your Soul is as dear to me
Stran 45 - learned my first rudiments of Latin near to Smithfield, in London, where the martyrs were roasted." ..." 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to my cost," he added with a sigh.