The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 6proprietors, 1809 |
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... poor frightened waiter was surveying , with rueful countenance , the eye , teeth , and leg , lying upon the table , cried out in a frightful hollow voice ,. Come here , sir , take off my head . ' Turning round , and seeing the man's ...
... poor frightened waiter was surveying , with rueful countenance , the eye , teeth , and leg , lying upon the table , cried out in a frightful hollow voice ,. Come here , sir , take off my head . ' Turning round , and seeing the man's ...
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... poor body ought to be sparing of it . ' The same person , returning in three or four hours afterwards , found the old man in tears , and , on in- quiring the cause , was informed , that he had worked with the frying- pan until he was ...
... poor body ought to be sparing of it . ' The same person , returning in three or four hours afterwards , found the old man in tears , and , on in- quiring the cause , was informed , that he had worked with the frying- pan until he was ...
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... poor Corydon surrender Thirty sheep to buy one kiss . When next she bargain'd with her lover , Kisses were become more cheap , Phillis gladly now makes over Thirty kisses for one sheep . Next when love no longer burns him , Phillis , oh ...
... poor Corydon surrender Thirty sheep to buy one kiss . When next she bargain'd with her lover , Kisses were become more cheap , Phillis gladly now makes over Thirty kisses for one sheep . Next when love no longer burns him , Phillis , oh ...
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... Poor Peeping Tom is badly off . After the Toms we have seen , this is very flat in- deed . Here Mr. Mathews is again out of his latitude , no part being very good , except the scene with the lady sleeping . He sung the Wry - mouthed ...
... Poor Peeping Tom is badly off . After the Toms we have seen , this is very flat in- deed . Here Mr. Mathews is again out of his latitude , no part being very good , except the scene with the lady sleeping . He sung the Wry - mouthed ...
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... poor copy of a superior original , and little more to do with the first act , than Pizarro , or any other trumpery . ` For the sake of Mr. Mathews ' Sir Fretful , we would have the former part as an entremets alone , unmixed with baser ...
... poor copy of a superior original , and little more to do with the first act , than Pizarro , or any other trumpery . ` For the sake of Mr. Mathews ' Sir Fretful , we would have the former part as an entremets alone , unmixed with baser ...
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Page 99 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use: we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political.
Page 24 - ... fell asleep. Before he awoke, two ladies, who were foreigners, passed by in a carriage. Agreeably astonished at the loveliness of his appearance, they alighted, and having admired him (as they thought) unperceived, for some time, the youngest, who was very handsome, drew a pencil from her pocket, and having written some lines upon a piece of paper, put it with her trembling hand into his own.
Page 102 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Page 170 - And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 39 - A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
Page 76 - Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods again...
Page 287 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 27 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back.
Page 227 - Your trifle's no trifle, I ween, To customers prudent as I am ; Your peas in December are green, But I'm not so green as to buy 'em. • With ven'son I seldom am fed — Go bring me the sirloin, you ninny ; Who dines at a guinea a head Will ne'er by his head get a guinea...
Page 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.