The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 21proprietors, 1806 |
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... frequent incursions of those Irish chiefs upon the English pale . The actions of Sir William Skeffington , in Ireland , are fully detailed in history . Sir John Skeffington , the younger brother of the above Sir William , is the ...
... frequent incursions of those Irish chiefs upon the English pale . The actions of Sir William Skeffington , in Ireland , are fully detailed in history . Sir John Skeffington , the younger brother of the above Sir William , is the ...
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... frequently inculcated , as there is not , perhaps , another bias in human nature that hath an influence so universal to make us wander from truth as well as from justice . I begin with time , and the question is , what was the mea- sure ...
... frequently inculcated , as there is not , perhaps , another bias in human nature that hath an influence so universal to make us wander from truth as well as from justice . I begin with time , and the question is , what was the mea- sure ...
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... ! How he happened to forget Adam , we are at a loss to guess . Seriously , as a topographical work , saving the admission of ex- traneous matter , and its frequently tedious minuteness , it THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 29 30.
... ! How he happened to forget Adam , we are at a loss to guess . Seriously , as a topographical work , saving the admission of ex- traneous matter , and its frequently tedious minuteness , it THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 29 30.
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... frequently tedious minuteness , it is an use- ful and valuable publication . Our author concludes his travels over what he truly calls " a very extensive and sometimes sterile plain , " with this epigram , written by the late ...
... frequently tedious minuteness , it is an use- ful and valuable publication . Our author concludes his travels over what he truly calls " a very extensive and sometimes sterile plain , " with this epigram , written by the late ...
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... frequently eloquent . Mr. Dibdin , Mr. Stevens , and other preachers may be more popular than our author , but we pre- fer the tenour of his style of discourse , to such as they continually use , inasmuch , as from the pulpit , we ...
... frequently eloquent . Mr. Dibdin , Mr. Stevens , and other preachers may be more popular than our author , but we pre- fer the tenour of his style of discourse , to such as they continually use , inasmuch , as from the pulpit , we ...
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Page 24 - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
Page 45 - ... is only thinking, and thinking such matter as were inexcusable folly in him to speak. But because we are concealed spectators of the plot in agitation, and the poet finds it necessary to let us know the whole mystery of his contrivance, he is willing to inform us of this person's thoughts; and to that end is forced to make use of the expedient of speech, no other better way being yet invented for the communication of thought.
Page 245 - Unquicken'd midst the world's rude strife, Shall sweet retirement render strong, And morning silence bring to life. Then tell me not that I shall grow Forlorn, that fields and woods will cloy ; From Nature and her changes flow An everlasting tide of joy.
Page 80 - WOMEN in their nature are much more gay and joyous than men ; whether it be that their blood is more refined, their fibres more delicate, and their animal spirits more light and volatile ; or whether, as some have imagined, there may not be a kind of sex in the very soul, I shall not pretend to determine.
Page 158 - Be gay and good humour'd, complying and kind, Turn the chief of your care from your face to your mind ; 'Tis thus that a wife may her conquests improve, And Hymen shall rivet the fetters of Love.
Page 170 - When in a few minutes after, his supporting ship having led through the French line in a gallant style, turning with a smile of joy to Sir Charles Douglas, he cried out. " Now, my dear friend, I am at the service of your Greeks and Trojans, and the whole of Homer's Iliad, or as much of it as you please, for the enemy is in confusion, and our victory is secure.
Page 327 - The nurse of great ^Eneas' infancy. Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia's plains : Thy name ('tis all a ghost can have) remains. Now, when the prince her fun'ral rites had paid, He plough'd the Tyrrhene seas with sails display 'd.
Page 112 - I am satisfied," said the emperor, and the governor withdrew. Before Paul retired to rest, he unexpectedly expressed the most tender solicitude for the Empress and his children, kissed them with all the warmth of farewell fondness, and remained with them longer than usual ; and after he had visited the...
Page 90 - Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal...
Page 113 - ... his consent instantly to relinquish the sceptre, and to accept of any terms which they would dictate. In his raving, he offered to make them princes, and to give them estates, and titles, and orders, without end. They now began to press upon him, when he made a convulsive effort to reach the window : in the attempt he failed, and indeed so high was it from the ground, that had he succeeded, the expedient would only have put a more instantaneous period to his misery. In the effort he very severely...