The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Band 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... excellent constitution , troubled with no ailments , and very temperate . : On Saturday , September 4th , Mr. P. had been to the play , at the Haymarket theatre , which he left before the farce commenced , and was at home early . Having ...
... excellent constitution , troubled with no ailments , and very temperate . : On Saturday , September 4th , Mr. P. had been to the play , at the Haymarket theatre , which he left before the farce commenced , and was at home early . Having ...
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... excellent fancy : " and , as I pass mournfully by his grave , I sighing say- " Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to set the table on a roar ? " He was of a kind and ...
... excellent fancy : " and , as I pass mournfully by his grave , I sighing say- " Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to set the table on a roar ? " He was of a kind and ...
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... matter , but because we wish , however we may be deficient in the rest , to use this one excellent quality of wit - brevity . SECUNDUS APOLLO . OLLA PODRIDA . Number III . DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN 16 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... matter , but because we wish , however we may be deficient in the rest , to use this one excellent quality of wit - brevity . SECUNDUS APOLLO . OLLA PODRIDA . Number III . DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN 16 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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... excellent help to astronomy , viz . the logarithms . But , my Lord , being by you found out , I wonder nobody else found it out before , when now being known it appears so easy . ' It is yet a matter of doubt among the learned , whether ...
... excellent help to astronomy , viz . the logarithms . But , my Lord , being by you found out , I wonder nobody else found it out before , when now being known it appears so easy . ' It is yet a matter of doubt among the learned , whether ...
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... and amiable author of this excellent discourse , the public is obliged for many valuable works , which tend eminently to correct the morals , and amend the heart . " I had rather be a door - keeper in THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 39.
... and amiable author of this excellent discourse , the public is obliged for many valuable works , which tend eminently to correct the morals , and amend the heart . " I had rather be a door - keeper in THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 39.
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Seite 43 - O Hamlet, speak no more : Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Seite 380 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Seite 20 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Seite 15 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Seite 386 - Though were his sight convey'd from zone to zone, He would not find one spot of ground his own, Yet, as he looks around, he cries with glee, These bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their...
Seite 300 - I was occupied, or ought to have been, in the study of the law; from thirty-three to sixty I have spent my time in the country, where my reading has been only an apology for idleness, and where, when I had not either a magazine or a review, I was sometimes a carpenter, at others a birdcage maker, or a gardener, or a drawer of landscapes. At fifty years of age I commenced an author : — it is a whim that has served me longest and best, and will probably be my last.
Seite 175 - Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews ; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old and New Testaments.
Seite 407 - I answer: This extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence, with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them : the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression, and beauty of oratorical numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
Seite 407 - This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure.
Seite 106 - ... in the hospital, was the only measure which could be adopted. The physician, alarmed at the proposal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cause of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, representing the cruelty as well as the atrocity of such a murder ; but finding that...