The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 16proprieters., 1803 |
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... verse : Truth , as Shakspeare says , is truth to the end of the reckoning . It cannot therefore be more true ; but certainly the poetry of Dryden has a greater portion of colloquial language diffused through it , than his prose . How ...
... verse : Truth , as Shakspeare says , is truth to the end of the reckoning . It cannot therefore be more true ; but certainly the poetry of Dryden has a greater portion of colloquial language diffused through it , than his prose . How ...
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... The poems of Pope may be compared to a handsome man , adorned with flowing robes , and beautiful as the Paris of Homer . The more chaste and dignified verse of Cowper is like a well - made man , in a E 2 THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 35.
... The poems of Pope may be compared to a handsome man , adorned with flowing robes , and beautiful as the Paris of Homer . The more chaste and dignified verse of Cowper is like a well - made man , in a E 2 THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 35.
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... verse of the former , like the melody of the flute , charms the hearer : the verse of the latter , like the sound of the clarion , rouses and animates him . Pope , like the nightingale , soothes the ear , and attracts us to the ...
... verse of the former , like the melody of the flute , charms the hearer : the verse of the latter , like the sound of the clarion , rouses and animates him . Pope , like the nightingale , soothes the ear , and attracts us to the ...
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... verses bearing away the palm , it would appear that a man might contend without merit , and triumph without honour . The poem before us on the Holy Wars is however of a chacter widely different , and stands amongst the other Muses of ...
... verses bearing away the palm , it would appear that a man might contend without merit , and triumph without honour . The poem before us on the Holy Wars is however of a chacter widely different , and stands amongst the other Muses of ...
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... verse : No robber rage the ripening harvest knows ; v . 77 . and perhaps the verb in the plural number in this line would be an improvement : 13 . But lawless might , and meagre want is there ; v . however these are spots which , if ...
... verse : No robber rage the ripening harvest knows ; v . 77 . and perhaps the verb in the plural number in this line would be an improvement : 13 . But lawless might , and meagre want is there ; v . however these are spots which , if ...
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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.