The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Հատոր 14proprietors, 1802 |
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... once at Chatham , to view a ship just finished on the stocks , he asked the famous Killigrew , if he did not think he should make an excellent shipwright ? Who pleasantly replied , He always thought his majesty would have done better at ...
... once at Chatham , to view a ship just finished on the stocks , he asked the famous Killigrew , if he did not think he should make an excellent shipwright ? Who pleasantly replied , He always thought his majesty would have done better at ...
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... once marked them for destruc- tion , he would never cease his pursuit till he had accomplished his purpose ; and so poisonous was his rancorous heart , that the tomb itself proved no antidote against it : he would , even after death ...
... once marked them for destruc- tion , he would never cease his pursuit till he had accomplished his purpose ; and so poisonous was his rancorous heart , that the tomb itself proved no antidote against it : he would , even after death ...
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... once graceful and dignified . Her features were strong and expressive ; but , with a little inspection , you might discover the crafty leer of the mother's eye , and , upon her forehead , the scowling frown of her father's rancour : yet ...
... once graceful and dignified . Her features were strong and expressive ; but , with a little inspection , you might discover the crafty leer of the mother's eye , and , upon her forehead , the scowling frown of her father's rancour : yet ...
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... once more decorated in her gayest habiliments , and dispensed her richest gifts with liberal profusion . Man again multiplied , and cultivated her acquaintance ; partook of her choicest treasures , and was grateful of her bounty . For ...
... once more decorated in her gayest habiliments , and dispensed her richest gifts with liberal profusion . Man again multiplied , and cultivated her acquaintance ; partook of her choicest treasures , and was grateful of her bounty . For ...
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... once delivered over to boundless spoliation and rapine . Nothing can be conceived more dreadful than the wild and wasteful havock made by soldiers impelled by such sentiments to destroy every thing deemed sacred and valuable in the ...
... once delivered over to boundless spoliation and rapine . Nothing can be conceived more dreadful than the wild and wasteful havock made by soldiers impelled by such sentiments to destroy every thing deemed sacred and valuable in the ...
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Էջ 45 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Էջ 404 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Էջ 166 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Էջ 386 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Էջ 316 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore; As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led! In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine!
Էջ 150 - Thrice happy swain ! A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs, then decided thine. For, lo ! conducted by the laughing Loves, This cool retreat his Musidora sought : Warm in her cheek the sultry season glow'd; And, rob'd in loose array, she came to bathe Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream.
Էջ 236 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Էջ 316 - Behold the mighty Hector's wife! Some haughty Greek, who lives thy tears to see, Embitters all thy woes by naming me. The thoughts of glory past, and present shame A thousand griefs shall waken at the name. May I lie cold before that dreadful day, Press'd with a load of monumental clay! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Էջ 316 - My soul impels me to the embattled plains! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. "Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates!
Էջ 294 - Fayel's hair, and put it among the powder, together with a little note he had written with his own blood to her ; and after he had given him the rites of burial, to make all the speed he could to France, and deliver the said box to Madame Fayel.