The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 6proprietors, 1809 |
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... attended with no lasting disgrace . Mr. Todd , in his attempt to save Milton from this lash , does more for the cause , when from the Oxford statutes ( 1635 , ten years after Milton's going to Cambridge ) , he shews that the " virgâ ...
... attended with no lasting disgrace . Mr. Todd , in his attempt to save Milton from this lash , does more for the cause , when from the Oxford statutes ( 1635 , ten years after Milton's going to Cambridge ) , he shews that the " virgâ ...
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... attending him at Lowther Hall , offered the Doctor a large annuity to reside there , but he preferred the labour of going about doing good , and the completion of his researches in those three great botanical works , The New ...
... attending him at Lowther Hall , offered the Doctor a large annuity to reside there , but he preferred the labour of going about doing good , and the completion of his researches in those three great botanical works , The New ...
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... attended either personally or by representative , at this as- sembly of the cortes , are related at length by several historians : It will be sufficient for our purpose to observe , that they univer- sally agree in attributing the most ...
... attended either personally or by representative , at this as- sembly of the cortes , are related at length by several historians : It will be sufficient for our purpose to observe , that they univer- sally agree in attributing the most ...
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... attended , and made a speech of an enormous length . " Words , " says Lord Bacon , are the money of fools and the counters of wise men , " and why should he be sparing of his counters , if they chuse to continue to take them for money ...
... attended , and made a speech of an enormous length . " Words , " says Lord Bacon , are the money of fools and the counters of wise men , " and why should he be sparing of his counters , if they chuse to continue to take them for money ...
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... attend to the culture of the lands which I then had ; but the shepherds and the nymphs of his imagination not being to be found there , as he fancied , his taste for the pursuit was soon gone . An oppor- tunity now offered of putting ...
... attend to the culture of the lands which I then had ; but the shepherds and the nymphs of his imagination not being to be found there , as he fancied , his taste for the pursuit was soon gone . An oppor- tunity now offered of putting ...
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Page 99 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use: we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political.
Page 24 - ... fell asleep. Before he awoke, two ladies, who were foreigners, passed by in a carriage. Agreeably astonished at the loveliness of his appearance, they alighted, and having admired him (as they thought) unperceived, for some time, the youngest, who was very handsome, drew a pencil from her pocket, and having written some lines upon a piece of paper, put it with her trembling hand into his own.
Page 102 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Page 170 - And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 39 - A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
Page 76 - Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods again...
Page 287 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 27 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back.
Page 227 - Your trifle's no trifle, I ween, To customers prudent as I am ; Your peas in December are green, But I'm not so green as to buy 'em. • With ven'son I seldom am fed — Go bring me the sirloin, you ninny ; Who dines at a guinea a head Will ne'er by his head get a guinea...
Page 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.