 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...observation. Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse, or how to comply. We had many books to teach us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 pages
...observation. Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet underta,ken...important duties, and to settle opinions in philosophy or politicks; but an Arbiter Elegantiarum, a judge of propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 298 pages
...observation. Before the ' Tatler' and ' Spectator,' if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the track of daily conversation, and free it from thorns and prickles, which teaze the passer, though they do not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pages
...observation. Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse, or how to comply. We had many books to teach us... | |
 | 1823 - 380 pages
...observation. ' Before the TATLER and SPECTATOR, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse, or how to comply. We had many books to teach us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...observation. Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility ; to shew when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse, or how to comply. We had many books to teach us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...observation. Before the Taller and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken...important duties, and to settle opinions in philosophy or politicks ; but an Arbiter Elegantiarum, a judge of propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the... | |
 | 1824 - 310 pages
...^ Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted (says Johnson,) England had nd masters of common life, no writers had yet undertaken...savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility; to teach when v to speak, or to be silent; how to refuse, or how to comply. The Tatler and Spectator reduced,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...meal, as usual. See the edition of the Tatler with notes, vol. vi. N°. 271, note; p. 462, ice. N. show when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse,...important duties, and to settle opinions in philosophy or politicks ; but an Arbiter Elegantiarum, a judge of propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...meal, as usual. See the edition of the Tatler with notes, vol. vi. N". 271, note; p. 462, «tc. N. show when to speak, or to be silent ; how to refuse,...important duties, and to settle opinions in philosophy or politicks ; but an Arbiter Elegantiarum, a judge of propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the... | |
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Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life. No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect, or the impertinence of civility; to show when to speak, or to... 
