The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 16proprieters., 1803 |
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... Theatre Royal Haymarket . By James Boaden . 2s . Ridgway . 1803 . We entered at considerable length into the merits of this af- fecting drama , soon after its appearance on the stage . The com- mendation it then received from us we have ...
... Theatre Royal Haymarket . By James Boaden . 2s . Ridgway . 1803 . We entered at considerable length into the merits of this af- fecting drama , soon after its appearance on the stage . The com- mendation it then received from us we have ...
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... theatre abounds too much with such images . Even the common sentiments of compassion require to be sof- tened by some agreeable affection , in order to give a thorough sa- tisfaction to the audience . The mere suffering of plaintive ...
... theatre abounds too much with such images . Even the common sentiments of compassion require to be sof- tened by some agreeable affection , in order to give a thorough sa- tisfaction to the audience . The mere suffering of plaintive ...
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... Theatre Royal Covent - Garden . " " Ladies and Gentlemen , " THE various contributions , so frequently solicited among you , are so many proofs of the disasters to which the professors of the theatre are liable ; reliefs thus obtained ...
... Theatre Royal Covent - Garden . " " Ladies and Gentlemen , " THE various contributions , so frequently solicited among you , are so many proofs of the disasters to which the professors of the theatre are liable ; reliefs thus obtained ...
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... theatre , after rehearsal , on the earliest day that can be made convenient , to appoint a select com- mittee of three , five , seven , or more members , as shall seem fittest , who shall occasionally meet for the farther advancement of ...
... theatre , after rehearsal , on the earliest day that can be made convenient , to appoint a select com- mittee of three , five , seven , or more members , as shall seem fittest , who shall occasionally meet for the farther advancement of ...
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... THEATRE , After a season of unusual success , under all the circumstances , closed on Sa- turday , the 23d , with Mrs. Billington and Calypso . Next season is to produce wonders , under the management of GoULD . It is whispered ...
... THEATRE , After a season of unusual success , under all the circumstances , closed on Sa- turday , the 23d , with Mrs. Billington and Calypso . Next season is to produce wonders , under the management of GoULD . It is whispered ...
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Page 49 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Page 14 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 407 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 292 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 284 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions ; and, as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Page 402 - tis seal'd in heaven. May all the vengeance that was ever pour'd On perjur'd heads, o'erwhelm me, if I break it ! FORTIES. Fix'd in astonishment, I gaze upon thee ; Like one just blasted by a stroke from heaven, Who pants for breath, and stiffens, yet alive, In dreadful looks — a monument of wrath ! LUCIA.
Page 284 - ... of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit.
Page 285 - I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 284 - Had I been in Switzerland, I would have fought against the French. In the dignity of freedom I would have expired on the threshold .of that country, and they should have entered it only by passing over my lifeless corpse. Is it, then, to be supposed, that I would be slow to make the same sacrifice to my native land ? Am I, who...
Page 150 - I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendom doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, do always at their meals use a little fork when they cut their meat.