 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...January, 1711. The object of the Taller, as set forth by the editor in his dedicatory preface, was "to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourses, and our behavior; to rally all those singularities of life, through the different professions... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 pages
...discovered in the ' Preface' to vol. i., was ' to expose the false arts of life; to pull off the dis' guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation ; and to ' recommend...in our dress, our ' discourse, and our behaviour.' Steele's first idea seems to have been to combine the latest news (for which his position as 'Gazetteer'... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pages
...curiosity of persons of all conditions and of each sex. . . . The general purposes of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." ' TJie name of the Tatler. Isaac informs us, was " invented in honour of the fair sex," for whose entertainment... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1885 - 568 pages
...claim for it a more elevated mission than that of merely retailing the gossip of the Town, namely, 'to expose the false Arts of Life, to pull off the...Simplicity in our Dress, our Discourse, and our Behaviour.' At the time these words were written, Addison had played but a small part in the fortunes of the Tatler.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...sich in der Widmung an Mr. Maynwaring *) folgendermassen aus: The general Purpose of this Paper, is to expose the false Arts of Life, to pull off the...Simplicity in our Dress, our Discourse, and our Behaviour. Die Zeitschrift, welche am Dienstag, Donnerstag und Sonnabend ausgegeben wurde, enthalt 271 Nummern,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 pages
...to ' expose the false arts of life, pull off the disguises of vanity, cunning, and affectation, and recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.' This journal he called the Tatler, not without allusion to the supposed gossipping propensities of... | |
 | 1888 - 498 pages
...the Taller, " in honour." said Steele, " of 1 the fair sex ; " and the object it had in view was " to expose ] the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour." The editor of the new venture concealed his identity under the nom do guerre of Isaac Bickerstaff—... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 622 pages
...Lane. It was published under the nom de plume of Isaac BickerstafT, an imaginary Editor, who proposed " to expose the false arts of " life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." The name of Bickerstaff was borrowed from Swift, who had employed il in his ironical controversy with... | |
 | 1888 - 266 pages
...and its "general purpose," as discovered in the " Pref« " Tatler," No. 161. ace ' to vol. i., was " to expose the false arts of life; to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our hehavior." Steele's first idea seems to have heen to combine the latest news (for which his position... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 606 pages
...published under the nom de plume of Isaac Bickerstaff, an imaginary Editor, who proposed " to expose Ihe false arts of " life, to pull off the disguises of...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." The name of Bickerstaff was borrowed from Swift, who had employed it in his ironical controversy with... | |
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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. 
