The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Band 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... wish the downfall of our house . " Amongst the concluding lines- " Godde prosper longe oure kynge , " is of too frequent occurrence in old ballads to call for particular no- tice ; and if we here terminate our observations , it is not ...
... wish the downfall of our house . " Amongst the concluding lines- " Godde prosper longe oure kynge , " is of too frequent occurrence in old ballads to call for particular no- tice ; and if we here terminate our observations , it is not ...
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... wish had crown'd , In useful labour past the hours away , And social converse cheer'd each happy day ; And when , at length , the weekly toil was ended , Content and cheerfulness were sweetly blended In every happy face that form'd the ...
... wish had crown'd , In useful labour past the hours away , And social converse cheer'd each happy day ; And when , at length , the weekly toil was ended , Content and cheerfulness were sweetly blended In every happy face that form'd the ...
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... wish to avail myself of the earliest apportunity of vindicating myself from so gross an aspersion ; and for your very handsome offer of permitting me to say a few words in justifi- cation of myself , both as a man and a performer , I ...
... wish to avail myself of the earliest apportunity of vindicating myself from so gross an aspersion ; and for your very handsome offer of permitting me to say a few words in justifi- cation of myself , both as a man and a performer , I ...
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... wish to engage in himself . These persons , however , especially if of consequence from their situation , are often very pernicious to society ; and the public has more than once been put to an enormous expence , as well as great * It ...
... wish to engage in himself . These persons , however , especially if of consequence from their situation , are often very pernicious to society ; and the public has more than once been put to an enormous expence , as well as great * It ...
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... wish for a plea- santer companion . Do not conclude the man to be generous , who is lavish in his presents . We are all of us best acquainted with our own weaknesses , and , like a skilful general , make up a shew of strength , where we ...
... wish for a plea- santer companion . Do not conclude the man to be generous , who is lavish in his presents . We are all of us best acquainted with our own weaknesses , and , like a skilful general , make up a shew of strength , where we ...
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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...