The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... heard . The name of the exe- cutor , through whose failure he lost his fortune , was Walkinshaw . His two sons , now living , are said to be named John and Samuel : it should have been Samuel and John ; Samuel being the elder , to whom ...
... heard . The name of the exe- cutor , through whose failure he lost his fortune , was Walkinshaw . His two sons , now living , are said to be named John and Samuel : it should have been Samuel and John ; Samuel being the elder , to whom ...
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... heard of , or witnessed this whimsical undertaking , he accomplished , and thus gained his bet . The line of road was almost straight , and lay through fields , orchards , gardens , and a multiplicity of small houses . Lest any one ...
... heard of , or witnessed this whimsical undertaking , he accomplished , and thus gained his bet . The line of road was almost straight , and lay through fields , orchards , gardens , and a multiplicity of small houses . Lest any one ...
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... heard so repeatedly of the ups and downs of this world , we are here , at p . 6 , amongst other things equally curious and important , seriously assured , that " the world has nothing to do with upwards and downwards . " But , if some ...
... heard so repeatedly of the ups and downs of this world , we are here , at p . 6 , amongst other things equally curious and important , seriously assured , that " the world has nothing to do with upwards and downwards . " But , if some ...
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... heard with considerably more pleasure if he would let us know what he is singing about . Mrs. Dawson's capacity for the stage is dubious . Her figure , gesture , speech , & c . are tolerable rather than striking . She frequently forgets ...
... heard with considerably more pleasure if he would let us know what he is singing about . Mrs. Dawson's capacity for the stage is dubious . Her figure , gesture , speech , & c . are tolerable rather than striking . She frequently forgets ...
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... heard it all , under various heads of dissertation , for nearly three quarters of an hour ; when , unable any longer to endure the oppression of his commander's eloquence , with the other sufferings that were to follow , thus moving- ly ...
... heard it all , under various heads of dissertation , for nearly three quarters of an hour ; when , unable any longer to endure the oppression of his commander's eloquence , with the other sufferings that were to follow , thus moving- ly ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...