The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 241807 |
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... continued , but that he could not set a good face upon it , and so was cashiered . " By a very natural and fortunate gradation , from an actor he became a writer of plays . In his first efforts , it is said , he was unsuccessful ; but ...
... continued , but that he could not set a good face upon it , and so was cashiered . " By a very natural and fortunate gradation , from an actor he became a writer of plays . In his first efforts , it is said , he was unsuccessful ; but ...
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... continued equally deaf to all his over- tures , and during this time we got nothing to eat . My friend being a little confounded at the discovery that , by his art of imitation , we were very likely to go without our dinner , I took the ...
... continued equally deaf to all his over- tures , and during this time we got nothing to eat . My friend being a little confounded at the discovery that , by his art of imitation , we were very likely to go without our dinner , I took the ...
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... ( Continued from P. 414 , Vol . I. ) SECTION VI . Continued . To please our natural indolence , or love of variety , the objects must be diversified . To please , therefore , there must be- 1. Importance , 2. Novelty , I. 3. Some singular ...
... ( Continued from P. 414 , Vol . I. ) SECTION VI . Continued . To please our natural indolence , or love of variety , the objects must be diversified . To please , therefore , there must be- 1. Importance , 2. Novelty , I. 3. Some singular ...
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... CONTINUED . An instance of the singular in passion , from the Bourgeois Gentil- homme of Moliere . A lover is angry with his mistress - let her go , the loss will not be great ; she is not very handsome . His resentment is here carried ...
... CONTINUED . An instance of the singular in passion , from the Bourgeois Gentil- homme of Moliere . A lover is angry with his mistress - let her go , the loss will not be great ; she is not very handsome . His resentment is here carried ...
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... much higher by Moliere than Mr. M. has represented , since the lover is constrained to praise what he himself acknowledges to be an imperfection . J. S. B. SECTION XIII . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . The singular effects THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 45.
... much higher by Moliere than Mr. M. has represented , since the lover is constrained to praise what he himself acknowledges to be an imperfection . J. S. B. SECTION XIII . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . The singular effects THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 45.
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