The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 17Proprietors., 1804 |
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... soon as Alexander came within sight of Jerusalem , the pro cession from the city began to move . The high priest took the lead , superbly arrayed in scarlet and purple , and wearing the mitre , which bore the name of God engraved on a ...
... soon as Alexander came within sight of Jerusalem , the pro cession from the city began to move . The high priest took the lead , superbly arrayed in scarlet and purple , and wearing the mitre , which bore the name of God engraved on a ...
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... soon completed . I had observed him about a quarter of an hour previous to this adventure , and remarked that he caught a number of very small flies , which abounded on every weed , after , much rain in the night ; and I was not a ...
... soon completed . I had observed him about a quarter of an hour previous to this adventure , and remarked that he caught a number of very small flies , which abounded on every weed , after , much rain in the night ; and I was not a ...
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... soon as possible . The joys of a man of any refinement are silent , and swell the soul to an altitude which precludes utterance . As we returned , we deviated from the direct line to pay a visit to Pompey's theatre . The theatres were ...
... soon as possible . The joys of a man of any refinement are silent , and swell the soul to an altitude which precludes utterance . As we returned , we deviated from the direct line to pay a visit to Pompey's theatre . The theatres were ...
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... soon after his appointment , he gave evident symptoms of possessing an inordinate ambition , and a passionate de- sire of fame ; he erected statues to himself throughout Egypt , caused his military exploits to be engraven on the ...
... soon after his appointment , he gave evident symptoms of possessing an inordinate ambition , and a passionate de- sire of fame ; he erected statues to himself throughout Egypt , caused his military exploits to be engraven on the ...
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... soon lead them- selves into some misfortune ; and as soon as this happens , the para- site , in both cases , becomes hateful and contemptible . " This extract I made many years ago from a speech in a debate on the pension bill . If ...
... soon lead them- selves into some misfortune ; and as soon as this happens , the para- site , in both cases , becomes hateful and contemptible . " This extract I made many years ago from a speech in a debate on the pension bill . If ...
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Page 406 - How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 336 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 164 - A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 379 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Page 123 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 164 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 259 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 51 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 337 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 61 - I ask to be allowed to display the best energies of my character, to shed the last drop of my blood in support of your Majesty's person, crown, and dignity ; for this is not a war for empire, glory, or dominion, but for existence. In this contest the lowest and humblest of your Majesty's subjects have been called...