Date: Tuesday, June 28, to Thursday, June 30, 1709
"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."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Tuesday, June 28, to Thursday, June 30, 1709
"Speak the speech as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lieve the town-crier had spoke my lines: nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)