The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Band 2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... acquainted with the celebrated characters of anti- quity , and an enthusiastic admirer of their virtues , I longed to visit Italy , to see the spot where Scipio triumphed , where Cæsar fell , where Cicero ha- rangued . Full of these ...
... acquainted with the celebrated characters of anti- quity , and an enthusiastic admirer of their virtues , I longed to visit Italy , to see the spot where Scipio triumphed , where Cæsar fell , where Cicero ha- rangued . Full of these ...
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... acquaintance I had in town . If you , Mr. MIRROR , be a frequenter of public places , I need not tell you how much I was struck on entering the room . Dark , dirty , mean , offensive . to every sense , it seemed to resemble a large barn ...
... acquaintance I had in town . If you , Mr. MIRROR , be a frequenter of public places , I need not tell you how much I was struck on entering the room . Dark , dirty , mean , offensive . to every sense , it seemed to resemble a large barn ...
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... acquainted ) differed from those we had been accustomed to abroad . In that belief I went to the opera in the evening . I had not been there long before Lord - hap- pened to come into the very box where I was . With Lord I had lived in ...
... acquainted ) differed from those we had been accustomed to abroad . In that belief I went to the opera in the evening . I had not been there long before Lord - hap- pened to come into the very box where I was . With Lord I had lived in ...
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... acquaintance , he found to be justified by her conversation and manners . Emilia's father was addicted to pleasure and ex- pense , and her mother , though more accomplished , of a similar disposition . - In their family she had been ...
... acquaintance , he found to be justified by her conversation and manners . Emilia's father was addicted to pleasure and ex- pense , and her mother , though more accomplished , of a similar disposition . - In their family she had been ...
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... acquaintance , Horatio enjoyed the friendship of several persons of both sexes endowed with those elegant manners , and that delicate and cultivated understanding , which render conversation at once agreeable and instructive . Of these ...
... acquaintance , Horatio enjoyed the friendship of several persons of both sexes endowed with those elegant manners , and that delicate and cultivated understanding , which render conversation at once agreeable and instructive . Of these ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affection agreeable allowed amidst amusement Antonio appearance attended battle of Culloden beauty called character circumstances companions conduct conversation daugh death dinner disposition dreams eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged entertainment equally fashion father favour FEBRUARY 19 feelings flattered fortune frequently friends friendship genius gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulgence JANUARY 15 JANUARY 23 ladies learned lived lively colours look Louisa manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment merit mind MIRROR nature nerally ness never nonsense verses object obliged observed opinion paper passions perhaps persons Phædo pleasure possessed racter received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sentiments sign-post Sir Edward sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste TATLER thing thought tion torrent streams town TUESDAY Umphraville virtue wife wish writing young
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Seite 266 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Seite 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Seite 95 - Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe, Where, round some mouldering tower, pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies ; Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
Seite 177 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Seite 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 261 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 262 - The time is out of joint ; — Oh cursed spite ! That ever I was born to set it right ! Nay, come, let's go together.
Seite 134 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Seite 323 - if Louisa will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never cease to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more ; when this heart shall have forgot to love, and cease to be wretched.