The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 17proprietors, 1804 |
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... learning ever revive amongst us , when the present inattention to his admirable Metaphysics , established on the physics of Newton , will be deemed as great a dishonour to the wisdom of this age , as the neglect of Milton's poetry is to ...
... learning ever revive amongst us , when the present inattention to his admirable Metaphysics , established on the physics of Newton , will be deemed as great a dishonour to the wisdom of this age , as the neglect of Milton's poetry is to ...
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... learning . Hark'ee , Laconic , you understand Latin . Lac . Latin , ad unguem . Snar . Who is this same lass we have got here ? Lac . Pris , comedian .-- Oh ! are you there ! -ha , ha , was there ever so absurd a design ? Snar . What's ...
... learning . Hark'ee , Laconic , you understand Latin . Lac . Latin , ad unguem . Snar . Who is this same lass we have got here ? Lac . Pris , comedian .-- Oh ! are you there ! -ha , ha , was there ever so absurd a design ? Snar . What's ...
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... learning , we would advise Mr. J. however strange it may appear to him , to print his Greek P thus , п . To proceed with the symptoms , which we every where discover , of ignorance and vanity , we may observe , that , if Mr. J.'s scho ...
... learning , we would advise Mr. J. however strange it may appear to him , to print his Greek P thus , п . To proceed with the symptoms , which we every where discover , of ignorance and vanity , we may observe , that , if Mr. J.'s scho ...
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... learning ; but we are equally sensible how curious the public must feel to learn whatever particulars may be collected of persons , who , like the gentleman of whom we are now proceeding to speak , are enabled , by the direc- tion of ...
... learning ; but we are equally sensible how curious the public must feel to learn whatever particulars may be collected of persons , who , like the gentleman of whom we are now proceeding to speak , are enabled , by the direc- tion of ...
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... learning . He had there very different temptations to withstand from those which first entangled him at Edinburgh ; and , as they pressed around him in much more various shapes , and more fascinating forms , they natu- rally made him ...
... learning . He had there very different temptations to withstand from those which first entangled him at Edinburgh ; and , as they pressed around him in much more various shapes , and more fascinating forms , they natu- rally made him ...
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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 406 - 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 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 406 - If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him ! Bass.
Page 164 - Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, 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!
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 393 - If you do not rise early, you never can make any progress worth talking of; and another rule is, if you do not set apart your hours of reading, and never suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitably and frivolously ; unpraised by all you wish to please, and really unenjoyable to yourself.
Page 164 - 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 65 - Having thus stated to you, fairly and candidly, what has passed, I trust you will see that there can be no grounds for the apprehension expressed in the latter part of your letter, that any slur can attach to your character as an officer — particularly as I recollect your mentioning to me yourself, on the day on which you received the notification of your appointment to the 10th Light Dragoons, the explanation and condition attached to it by his Majesty ; and, therefore, surely you must be satisfied...