The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Bind 15proprieters., 1802 |
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Side 5
... favours , and a promise of future exertion . This poetic effort was the fifth this lady had been favoured with that season , and , amidst a " choice of difficulties , " she laid the whole of them , with all their imperfections on their ...
... favours , and a promise of future exertion . This poetic effort was the fifth this lady had been favoured with that season , and , amidst a " choice of difficulties , " she laid the whole of them , with all their imperfections on their ...
Side 20
... exist together . The virgin being thus at liberty , advanced peaceably towards the city . A woman walking naked is not so great a singularity in C India as in other climates less favoured by the 20 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... exist together . The virgin being thus at liberty , advanced peaceably towards the city . A woman walking naked is not so great a singularity in C India as in other climates less favoured by the 20 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
Side 21
... favoured by the sun . by her poets , sultanas , and eunuchs , There passed " Ah , " said the poets , on beholding her , " how thin she is ! " " How indiscreet she is ! " cried the sultanas . " How sad she appears ! " ejaculated the ...
... favoured by the sun . by her poets , sultanas , and eunuchs , There passed " Ah , " said the poets , on beholding her , " how thin she is ! " " How indiscreet she is ! " cried the sultanas . " How sad she appears ! " ejaculated the ...
Side 34
... favour , I beg leave to acknowledge the pol te assistance of Mr. Heber , Mr. Ellis , and Mr. Park . For convenience of reference , the pages in this edition correspond exactly with those of the ancient copies . The orthography of the ...
... favour , I beg leave to acknowledge the pol te assistance of Mr. Heber , Mr. Ellis , and Mr. Park . For convenience of reference , the pages in this edition correspond exactly with those of the ancient copies . The orthography of the ...
Side 54
... favour with the public , without the most superlative acting , such as we have seen from Kemble and Mrs. Siddons , in the Count and Countess ; but the performers on this evening were not without considerable merit , Barrymore was ...
... favour with the public , without the most superlative acting , such as we have seen from Kemble and Mrs. Siddons , in the Count and Countess ; but the performers on this evening were not without considerable merit , Barrymore was ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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!
Side 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?
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...