 | Englishmen - 1836 - 256 Seiten
...very favourably received. The general purpose of ' The Tatler' was — as the author observes — " to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Nothing more was aimed at while Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise above... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 Seiten
...Tatler, a small sheet designed to appear three times a-week, ' to expose,' as the author stated, ' the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.' Steele, who had then reached his thirty-eighth year, was qualified for his task by a knowledge... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 Seiten
...Tatler, a small sheet designed to appear three times a-week, ' to expose,' as the author stated, ' the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.' Steele, who had then reached his thirty-eighth year, was qualified for his task by a knowledge... | |
 | 1842 - 414 Seiten
...assumed, with the greatest propriety by every work of the kind : " 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 behavior." In the dedication to the second volume, to Mr. Ed. Wortley Montague, he thus delicately compliments... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 322 Seiten
...with the greatest propriety, by every work of the kind : — " 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 behavior." In the dedication to the second volume, to Mr. Ed. Wortley Montague, he thus delicately compliments... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 352 Seiten
...kind : — " The general purpose of this paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull offthe disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behavior." In the dedication to the second volume, to Mr. Ed. Wortley Montague, he thus delicately compliments... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare." A prominent object he elsewhere declares to be "to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Accordingly he penetrated the nooks of experience, and constantly enforced minor philosophy,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...sheet designed to appear three times a week,' to expose,' as he stated in his introductory number, ' the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.' Having now reached his thirty-eighth year, Steele was well qualified, by a thorough knowledge... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...of the more extensive diffusion of thcir labors, the successful writers of periodical lucubrations. expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and ostentation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, discourse, and behavior. The general... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...produced them had subsided. But the general purpose of the "Tatler," as Steele himself declares was to the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, nity, and ostentation, and to recommend a general simplicity our dress, discourse, and behavior. The... | |
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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. 
