The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1G. Risk, 1751 |
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... Country . I must therefore contradict what has been fo affuredly reported by the News - Writers of England , That France is in the most deplorable Condition , and that their People die in great Multitudes . I will therefore let the ...
... Country . I must therefore contradict what has been fo affuredly reported by the News - Writers of England , That France is in the most deplorable Condition , and that their People die in great Multitudes . I will therefore let the ...
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... Country Girl . I must own , the Defign of Chloe's Picture shows , to me , great Mastery in the Painter ; for nothing could be bet- ter imagined than the Drefs he has given her of a Straw- Hat and a Ribbon , to represent that Sort of ...
... Country Girl . I must own , the Defign of Chloe's Picture shows , to me , great Mastery in the Painter ; for nothing could be bet- ter imagined than the Drefs he has given her of a Straw- Hat and a Ribbon , to represent that Sort of ...
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... Country : He lives in a Court unsullied with any of its Artifices , the Re- fuge of the Oppreffed , and Terror of Oppreffors . Martio has joined himself to this Council ; a Man of most un- daunted Resolution and great Knowledge in ...
... Country : He lives in a Court unsullied with any of its Artifices , the Re- fuge of the Oppreffed , and Terror of Oppreffors . Martio has joined himself to this Council ; a Man of most un- daunted Resolution and great Knowledge in ...
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... Country , and formed for great Attempts . This he fays to introduce the Characters of Cæfar and Cato . It would be entering into too weighty a Discourse for this Place , if I attempted to fhew , that our Nation has produced as great and ...
... Country , and formed for great Attempts . This he fays to introduce the Characters of Cæfar and Cato . It would be entering into too weighty a Discourse for this Place , if I attempted to fhew , that our Nation has produced as great and ...
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... Countries from France , in or- der to be a Plenipotentiary in an enfuing Treaty of Peace . LETTERS from France acknowledge , That Mon- fieur Bernard has made no higher Offers of Satisfaction to his Creditors than of 35 per Cent . THESE ...
... Countries from France , in or- der to be a Plenipotentiary in an enfuing Treaty of Peace . LETTERS from France acknowledge , That Mon- fieur Bernard has made no higher Offers of Satisfaction to his Creditors than of 35 per Cent . THESE ...
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Page 211 - 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.
Page 212 - ... 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.
Page 7 - Gentleman of a great estate fell desperately in love with a great Beauty of very high quality, but as ill-natured as long flattery and an habitual self-will could make her. However, my young Spark ventures upon her like a man of quality, without being acquainted with her, or having ever saluted her, until it was a crime to kiss any woman else.
Page 291 - In this accomplished lady love is the constant effect, though it is never the design ; yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour, and to love her is a liberal education.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 6 - I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead, and if he has any shame, I don't doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance : for though the legs and arms, and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions ; yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.
Page 180 - ... in the common modes of life, and make a greater progress in the world by that knowledge than with the greatest qualities without it. A good mien in a court will carry a man greater lengths than a good understanding in any other place. We see a world of pains taken, and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and, after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in...
Page 208 - ... 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...
Page 91 - This careless jade was eternally romping with the footman, and downright starved me ; insomuch that I daily pined away, and should never have been relieved had it not been that, on the thirtieth day of my life, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had writ upon Cold Baths...
Page 74 - Things are come to this pass; and yet the world will not understand, that the theatre has much the same effect on the manners of the age, as the Bank on the credit of the nation. Wit and spirit, humour and good sense, can never be revived but under the government of those who are judges of such talents; who know, that whatever is put up in their stead, is but a short and trifling expedient, to support the appearance of them for a season.