The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 17proprietors, 1804 |
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... thought , " that the Almighty exhorted him to dismiss his fears ; to adorn the city , as * Viz . The late Mr. Baxter . See the second volume of his unequalled Enquiry into the Nature of the human Soul . It is astonishing that so great a ...
... thought , " that the Almighty exhorted him to dismiss his fears ; to adorn the city , as * Viz . The late Mr. Baxter . See the second volume of his unequalled Enquiry into the Nature of the human Soul . It is astonishing that so great a ...
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... thought it a disgrace to his in strument to be eternized in the hands of so much apparent poverty . However , when a person of low station adorns himself with trophies to which he has no pretensions to aspire , he should consider the ...
... thought it a disgrace to his in strument to be eternized in the hands of so much apparent poverty . However , when a person of low station adorns himself with trophies to which he has no pretensions to aspire , he should consider the ...
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... thoughts on the architect . Perhaps , had I endeavoured to alter the form of my memorandums from what they appear in my book , I should only have got rid of one fault , a homespun way of telling a story , ―without gaining an equivalent ...
... thoughts on the architect . Perhaps , had I endeavoured to alter the form of my memorandums from what they appear in my book , I should only have got rid of one fault , a homespun way of telling a story , ―without gaining an equivalent ...
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... thought the world might do as well ; And shou'd I e'en my hand bestow , " Twere only changing vow for vow . You're now my priest , my faults confess'd ; If you absolve me , I am blest . Butcher . I am a butcher , ma'am , ' tis true ...
... thought the world might do as well ; And shou'd I e'en my hand bestow , " Twere only changing vow for vow . You're now my priest , my faults confess'd ; If you absolve me , I am blest . Butcher . I am a butcher , ma'am , ' tis true ...
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... Aug. lib . 1. c . 59 . + Vide Cicero Familiar Ep . literæ , 10. 31. 32 . § Diodorus , 1. 53 . Pliny , 1. 8 , c . 16 . Virgil Ecl . xøl . 23 . some thoughts and expressions , extracted from the first idyl 18 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... Aug. lib . 1. c . 59 . + Vide Cicero Familiar Ep . literæ , 10. 31. 32 . § Diodorus , 1. 53 . Pliny , 1. 8 , c . 16 . Virgil Ecl . xøl . 23 . some thoughts and expressions , extracted from the first idyl 18 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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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...