The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volumen22proprietors, 1806 |
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... death of patrons , or some other disappoint- ment , he commenced bookseller in the place of his nativity . It was in this situation , probably , and from a father so qualified , that Miss Parkhouse had an opportunity of receiving , like ...
... death of patrons , or some other disappoint- ment , he commenced bookseller in the place of his nativity . It was in this situation , probably , and from a father so qualified , that Miss Parkhouse had an opportunity of receiving , like ...
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... death , When free - born men , endowed with godlike powers , With generous passions glowing , are compell'd To obey the wild desires , or mean caprice Of an imperious tyrant , when perchance The heart revolts , and virtue cries aloud ...
... death , When free - born men , endowed with godlike powers , With generous passions glowing , are compell'd To obey the wild desires , or mean caprice Of an imperious tyrant , when perchance The heart revolts , and virtue cries aloud ...
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... death - bed repentance , and by that death the law lost its victim ! It is much to be wished that this account could close here ; but it cannot ! Bradford , though innocent , and not privy to the mur der , was , nevertheless , the ...
... death - bed repentance , and by that death the law lost its victim ! It is much to be wished that this account could close here ; but it cannot ! Bradford , though innocent , and not privy to the mur der , was , nevertheless , the ...
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... death : I did not want him to disavow it , for there could be no occasion to disprove an absolute impossibility . The man , who wrote it , had a savage heart , for some of his attacks are execrable ; he was a hypocrite , for he disavows ...
... death : I did not want him to disavow it , for there could be no occasion to disprove an absolute impossibility . The man , who wrote it , had a savage heart , for some of his attacks are execrable ; he was a hypocrite , for he disavows ...
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... Death of the Children of Brutus . He presented his play to the comedians , who refused it . Crebillon , hurt at the rejection of his tragedy , immediately went to Prieur , complained to him bitterly , and called his judgment in question ...
... Death of the Children of Brutus . He presented his play to the comedians , who refused it . Crebillon , hurt at the rejection of his tragedy , immediately went to Prieur , complained to him bitterly , and called his judgment in question ...
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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.