The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volumen12Proprietors., 1801 |
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... English poets , with those contained in the Sacred Writings . Every one must agree , that the Old Testament , every where abounds with beauty of thought and sublimity of description ; those , in particular , which relate to the Deity ...
... English poets , with those contained in the Sacred Writings . Every one must agree , that the Old Testament , every where abounds with beauty of thought and sublimity of description ; those , in particular , which relate to the Deity ...
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... English army , at the battle of Lafeldt , he was taken prisoner , and intro- duced , covered , into the presence of Louis XV . whose tent stood at a short distance from the field of action . When the French Monarch had received an ...
... English army , at the battle of Lafeldt , he was taken prisoner , and intro- duced , covered , into the presence of Louis XV . whose tent stood at a short distance from the field of action . When the French Monarch had received an ...
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... English poetry , as long as just resemblances of nature and accurate delineations of the passions shall influence the human heart , so few particulars , towards a history of his life , are known , that what can now be collected amounts ...
... English poetry , as long as just resemblances of nature and accurate delineations of the passions shall influence the human heart , so few particulars , towards a history of his life , are known , that what can now be collected amounts ...
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... English servant whom he does not think sufficiently smart , and whom he resolves to discharge , because he wishes to procure one who does not carry more than a certain weight . He offers , nevertheless , to retain him in his service ...
... English servant whom he does not think sufficiently smart , and whom he resolves to discharge , because he wishes to procure one who does not carry more than a certain weight . He offers , nevertheless , to retain him in his service ...
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... English stage . 9 Mr. Kelly has for many years acted as manager at the Opera House , where his musical knowledge , and his acquaintance with the continental languages and performers , render his services of great importance to the ...
... English stage . 9 Mr. Kelly has for many years acted as manager at the Opera House , where his musical knowledge , and his acquaintance with the continental languages and performers , render his services of great importance to the ...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures ..., Volumen24 Vista completa - 1807 |
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Página 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 165 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
Página 390 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Página 383 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 166 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 313 - It is a weary interlude — Which doth short joys, long woes, include; • The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death.
Página 241 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Página 117 - ... the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world.
Página 227 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Página 164 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.