The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volumen22proprietors, 1806 |
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... cause , was desired to take the part of a colonel in the army against a tradesman . The tradesman was in conference with the judge , who found his claim so clear , and so just , that he assured him of success . At the moment , the ...
... cause , was desired to take the part of a colonel in the army against a tradesman . The tradesman was in conference with the judge , who found his claim so clear , and so just , that he assured him of success . At the moment , the ...
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... cause coming before him , as the grossest affront , and would be as much dishonoured by the idea even of being actuated by any influence whatsoever , as an officer would by being kicked at the head of his regiment . Indeed , there is ...
... cause coming before him , as the grossest affront , and would be as much dishonoured by the idea even of being actuated by any influence whatsoever , as an officer would by being kicked at the head of his regiment . Indeed , there is ...
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... cause I can be no longer of any use to them . " P. 49 . The same is repeated to Mr. Fox , from whom , says he , with a mark of exclamation forsooth , " I never received any answer ! " What answer would such a reptile in politics have ...
... cause I can be no longer of any use to them . " P. 49 . The same is repeated to Mr. Fox , from whom , says he , with a mark of exclamation forsooth , " I never received any answer ! " What answer would such a reptile in politics have ...
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... cause of candour with success . The publisher of Junius I am told was deeply guaranteed ; of course , although he might not know his author , he must have known wherabouts to look for him . I never heard that my friend Lord George ...
... cause of candour with success . The publisher of Junius I am told was deeply guaranteed ; of course , although he might not know his author , he must have known wherabouts to look for him . I never heard that my friend Lord George ...
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... cause have lavished their fascinations upon subjects which would have been hopeless in other hands , or which prior occupation had familiarised to the memories of their hearers : yet Shakspeare could immortalise the most obscure novel ...
... cause have lavished their fascinations upon subjects which would have been hopeless in other hands , or which prior occupation had familiarised to the memories of their hearers : yet Shakspeare could immortalise the most obscure novel ...
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Página 388 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Página 84 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
Página 393 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly...
Página 164 - Not so Tiney ; upon him the kindest treatment had not the least effect. He too was sick, and in his sickness had an equal share of my attention ; but if, after his recovery, I took the liberty to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore feet, spring forward, and bite.
Página 164 - Bess, who died soon after he was full grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning.
Página 163 - Puss grew presently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise himself upon his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples.
Página 403 - Unhonoured the pilgrim from life should depart ? When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall...
Página 307 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 165 - It is no wonder that my intimate acquaintance with these specimens of the kind, has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of life, and that, impressed as they seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it.
Página 69 - ... to his brother, the King of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declare war against England; from which letter the Ministry sent out orders to the then Sir John Jervis to strike a stroke, if opportunity offered, against either the arsenals of Spain or her fleets. That neither of these was done, is not the fault of Lady Hamilton; the opportunity might have been offered.