The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 17proprietors, 1804 |
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... pleasures that constitute a merry Christmas ; I did not return till I had been present at drawing king and queen , and ... pleasure only study , still like me , And to be happy , make his subjects free . Nun . Just from my pious convent ...
... pleasures that constitute a merry Christmas ; I did not return till I had been present at drawing king and queen , and ... pleasure only study , still like me , And to be happy , make his subjects free . Nun . Just from my pious convent ...
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... pleasure they derived from the exhilarating scene ; drinking largely , and , with friendly nods and smiles , wishing each other to live as many years as on that day they drank cups . * I cannot explain the cause to your satisfaction ...
... pleasure they derived from the exhilarating scene ; drinking largely , and , with friendly nods and smiles , wishing each other to live as many years as on that day they drank cups . * I cannot explain the cause to your satisfaction ...
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... pleasure in comparing the extreme elegance of the one , with the innocent rusticity of the other . I feel the truth of the 69th line of this eclogue so forcibly , that I shall close my letter with it . Omnia vincit amor & nos cedamus ...
... pleasure in comparing the extreme elegance of the one , with the innocent rusticity of the other . I feel the truth of the 69th line of this eclogue so forcibly , that I shall close my letter with it . Omnia vincit amor & nos cedamus ...
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... pleasure ; and as those voters on whose influence the election must chiefly depend , are his friends and companions , he must give up the frank manners of social life , in the common inter- course of friendship and hospitality , for the ...
... pleasure ; and as those voters on whose influence the election must chiefly depend , are his friends and companions , he must give up the frank manners of social life , in the common inter- course of friendship and hospitality , for the ...
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... pleasures of life . It has ridiculed the mutual relations which subsist , or ought to subsist , between members of the same family and houshold ; and render- ed the observation of parental and filial duties of little effect . It has ...
... pleasures of life . It has ridiculed the mutual relations which subsist , or ought to subsist , between members of the same family and houshold ; and render- ed the observation of parental and filial duties of little effect . It has ...
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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...