The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... writer of this article well recollects the author's declar- ing , in a moment of conviviality , that , on walking home that night to Stratford Green , where his family then resided , he took every gust of wind through the trees for a ...
... writer of this article well recollects the author's declar- ing , in a moment of conviviality , that , on walking home that night to Stratford Green , where his family then resided , he took every gust of wind through the trees for a ...
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... writers of the preced ing age . Spenser appears to have been his model , and to whom many thoughts and expressions may be aptly traced : and though we may suppose Petrarch to have been familiar to him , yet I by no means conclude that ...
... writers of the preced ing age . Spenser appears to have been his model , and to whom many thoughts and expressions may be aptly traced : and though we may suppose Petrarch to have been familiar to him , yet I by no means conclude that ...
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... writer , and after giving him fifty stripes , permitted him to speak in his own justifica- tion . He did so with eloquence and propriety ; so much the worse for the gazetteer , for the visir dismissed him with a hundred more bastinadoes ...
... writer , and after giving him fifty stripes , permitted him to speak in his own justifica- tion . He did so with eloquence and propriety ; so much the worse for the gazetteer , for the visir dismissed him with a hundred more bastinadoes ...
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... writer , " was like the great Newton , endowed with the highest ornament of genius and learning , modesty ? and he knew , like him , how to appreciate the talents of others , with all the candour which a magnanimous mind is capable of ...
... writer , " was like the great Newton , endowed with the highest ornament of genius and learning , modesty ? and he knew , like him , how to appreciate the talents of others , with all the candour which a magnanimous mind is capable of ...
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... writer has also , at p . 91 , worked up a thought in some degree similar , under this motto from Ausonius : Conquerimur , Natura , brevis quod gratia florum est : Ostentata oculis illico dona rapis . Tasso , by the way , affords our ...
... writer has also , at p . 91 , worked up a thought in some degree similar , under this motto from Ausonius : Conquerimur , Natura , brevis quod gratia florum est : Ostentata oculis illico dona rapis . Tasso , by the way , affords our ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...