The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 12Proprietors., 1801 |
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... short distance from the field of action . When the French Monarch had received an explanation of the reason why he wore his hat , his majesty , with singular complaisance and good sense , invited him to dine at his own table . Lord ...
... short distance from the field of action . When the French Monarch had received an explanation of the reason why he wore his hat , his majesty , with singular complaisance and good sense , invited him to dine at his own table . Lord ...
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... short , there is a woman hired to sing , when the other shall be out of humour . Arlington - street , Nov. 16 , 1755 . ELOQUENCE OF MR . PITT . - Pitt surpassed himself , and then I need not tell you that he surpassed Cicero , and ...
... short , there is a woman hired to sing , when the other shall be out of humour . Arlington - street , Nov. 16 , 1755 . ELOQUENCE OF MR . PITT . - Pitt surpassed himself , and then I need not tell you that he surpassed Cicero , and ...
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... short , shall be governed by piety , moderation , brotherly love , and justice . * ' Sylvanus . " In the mean time we groan under all kinds of ca- lamities , which commenced when our temples , transformed into se- pulchres , were ...
... short , shall be governed by piety , moderation , brotherly love , and justice . * ' Sylvanus . " In the mean time we groan under all kinds of ca- lamities , which commenced when our temples , transformed into se- pulchres , were ...
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... short . I have never been able to dis- cover whether the Greek author proceeded any further , or whether the conclusion has been by any accident lost ; so that it is impossi ble to know what became either of Priscilla , or the old ...
... short . I have never been able to dis- cover whether the Greek author proceeded any further , or whether the conclusion has been by any accident lost ; so that it is impossi ble to know what became either of Priscilla , or the old ...
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... short - hand , it is said , that he purchased their notes , and inserted the substance of them in his own work , re- lating to vision , light , and colours . By the like means he procured Dr. Macquer of Dublin's Lec- tures , and ...
... short - hand , it is said , that he purchased their notes , and inserted the substance of them in his own work , re- lating to vision , light , and colours . By the like means he procured Dr. Macquer of Dublin's Lec- tures , and ...
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Página 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 165 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
Página 390 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Página 383 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 166 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 313 - It is a weary interlude — Which doth short joys, long woes, include; • The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death.
Página 241 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Página 117 - ... the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world.
Página 227 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Página 164 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.