The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volym 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... produced ninety - eight thousand three hundred miskal of pure gold . Besides these , there were above a hundred idols of silver , which loaded a hundred came's with bullion . " P. 285 . But , astonishing as was this mass of wealth , it ...
... produced ninety - eight thousand three hundred miskal of pure gold . Besides these , there were above a hundred idols of silver , which loaded a hundred came's with bullion . " P. 285 . But , astonishing as was this mass of wealth , it ...
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... produced during the reigns of Elizabeth or James , in his repository of fugitive poetry for 1801. Such pieces , we are inclined to think , would have been transferred with more propriety , to Mr. Ellis's " Speci- mens , " * which are ...
... produced during the reigns of Elizabeth or James , in his repository of fugitive poetry for 1801. Such pieces , we are inclined to think , would have been transferred with more propriety , to Mr. Ellis's " Speci- mens , " * which are ...
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... produce an effect upon the audiences of the present day . We will not enter into the fa ble of a comedy which is not likely to be repeated . Some of the scenes were highly relished by the audience , and went off with universal applause ...
... produce an effect upon the audiences of the present day . We will not enter into the fa ble of a comedy which is not likely to be repeated . Some of the scenes were highly relished by the audience , and went off with universal applause ...
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... produce . The practice of fattening cattle with oil - cake is not peculiar to this country . Mr. Sauer , secretary to the geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia , sent by command of the late Empress ...
... produce . The practice of fattening cattle with oil - cake is not peculiar to this country . Mr. Sauer , secretary to the geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia , sent by command of the late Empress ...
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... produced a most animated likeness , from which this engraving has been copied . Mr. Dermody , at that period , notwithstanding a firm belief in his speedy dissolution , con- sented to furnish his own memoir - alas ! the burning fever ...
... produced a most animated likeness , from which this engraving has been copied . Mr. Dermody , at that period , notwithstanding a firm belief in his speedy dissolution , con- sented to furnish his own memoir - alas ! the burning fever ...
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Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...