The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Հատոր 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... wish'd it to have been more extensive , and more on the Plan formerly recommended by Lord Shelburne ; now Marquis of Landsdowne . In Novr . 1798 , Mr. Geo . Bloomfield put into his hands his Bro- ther Mr. Robt . Bloomfield's M. S. of ...
... wish'd it to have been more extensive , and more on the Plan formerly recommended by Lord Shelburne ; now Marquis of Landsdowne . In Novr . 1798 , Mr. Geo . Bloomfield put into his hands his Bro- ther Mr. Robt . Bloomfield's M. S. of ...
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... wish them to become more eminently useless , for next to the exquisite idleness of reading their books , is that of not reading at all . As all attainments are acquired only by degrees , so idleness cannot be an immediate transition ...
... wish them to become more eminently useless , for next to the exquisite idleness of reading their books , is that of not reading at all . As all attainments are acquired only by degrees , so idleness cannot be an immediate transition ...
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... wish , and on her they bestowed the most watchful care and attention . Her person was naturally ugly , but she could conceal her deformity when she pleased , with an air at once graceful and dignified . Her features were strong and ...
... wish , and on her they bestowed the most watchful care and attention . Her person was naturally ugly , but she could conceal her deformity when she pleased , with an air at once graceful and dignified . Her features were strong and ...
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... which too he had acted a part . His sole aim seems to have been to give a correct and authentic narrative of events ; and so far , he is certainly entitled to praise . 1 It is the very reverse of our wishes , 34 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... which too he had acted a part . His sole aim seems to have been to give a correct and authentic narrative of events ; and so far , he is certainly entitled to praise . 1 It is the very reverse of our wishes , 34 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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... wishes , to snatch a laurel from the wreath that adorns the brows of the conqueror , in the cause of the British constitution : yet we cannot exactly discern the reasons which have induced Mr. Home to observe a profound silence upon ...
... wishes , to snatch a laurel from the wreath that adorns the brows of the conqueror , in the cause of the British constitution : yet we cannot exactly discern the reasons which have induced Mr. Home to observe a profound silence upon ...
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Էջ 388 - 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 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 301 - For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames : I shewe his first beginning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Rivers throughout Englande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte names, and right passage, &c.
Էջ 406 - 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 318 - 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, 590 Press'd with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Էջ 318 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Էջ 7 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to' Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Էջ 302 - to represent all the moral virtues, assigning to every virtue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same, in whose actions and feats of arms and chivalry the operations of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to be expressed, and the vices and unruly appetites that oppose themselves against the same, to be beaten down and overcome.
Էջ 244 - Of women's looks ; but digged myself a cave, Where I, my fire, my cattle, and my bed, Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some...
Էջ 300 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge...