 | Periodicals - 1781 - 392 pages
...fable of jEfop ? One of the fineft moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream in the TATLER, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream, comprehends a morrtl fo fnblime and fb interefling, that I queftion whether any man who attends to it can ever forget... | |
 | James Beattie - Aesthetics - 1783 - 862 pages
...improvement from a fiction of our own fancy, as well as from a novel, or a fable of JEfop ? One of the fineft moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream...every appearance of a real dream, comprehends a moral fofublime and fo interefting, that I queftion, whether any man who attends to it can ever forget it... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...fable of iEsop ? . One. of the finest moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream in the Tatler, -which, though it has every appearance of a real dream,...to be the better for it. Addison is the author of thfe paper ; and I shall give the story in his own elegant words. " I was once," says the Tatler, "... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...and Critical, 1783, says, " One of the finest moral tales I ever read is an account in the Tatler, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream,...and so interesting, that I question whether any man vvho attends to it can- ever forget it ; and if he remembers, whether he can ever cease to be the better... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...Dr. Beattie has thus exprest his opinion : " One of the finest moral tales I ever read is an account in the Taller, which, though it has every appearance...whether he can ever cease to be the better for it." * The subject we are upon brings to my recollection the relation of a disaster more awfullywild and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...which Dr. Beattie observes ; " One of the finest moral tales I ever read is an account in the Tatler, which though it has every appearance of a real dream, comprehends a moral so sublime and to interesting, that I question whether any man who attends to it can ever forget it; and, if he remembers,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...fable of ,Esop? One of the finest moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream in the TATLER, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream,...forget it ; and if he remembers, whether he can ever eease to be the better for it. ADLHSON is the author of the paper ; and I shall give the story in his... | |
 | 1822 - 488 pages
...altogether inextricablei. i ' One of the finest moral tales I ever read is an account in the Tatler, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream,...whether he can ever cease to be the better for it. I might enlarge on the beauty of this narrative ; but I mean only to recommend to the serious consideration... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...state of being ! — for 't is still to be — And who can know all false what then we see ? "J (2) [" One of the finest moral tales I ever read, is an account...story in his own elegant words : — * I was once in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 364 pages
...see ? "J (2) [" One of the finest moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream in the Tatler, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream,...story in his own elegant words : — * I was once in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself... | |
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One of the finest moral tales I ever read, is an account of a dream in the Tatler, which, though it has every appearance of a real dream, comprehends a moral so sublime and so interesting, that I question whether any man who attends to it can ever forget... 
