The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 17Proprietors., 1804 - Great Britain |
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Page 120
... houses , in various parts of the town , of a size to contain , at the present prices of admission , about four hun- dred , or four hundred and fifty pounds ; the utmost extent to which a theatre for ... crowded house 120 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... houses , in various parts of the town , of a size to contain , at the present prices of admission , about four hun- dred , or four hundred and fifty pounds ; the utmost extent to which a theatre for ... crowded house 120 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
Page 121
... crowded house , at Co- vent - Garden . It has been equally successful , and maintained a decided superiority at most of the provincial theatres in the united kingdom . From what quarter the suppression of this more chaste and ...
... crowded house , at Co- vent - Garden . It has been equally successful , and maintained a decided superiority at most of the provincial theatres in the united kingdom . From what quarter the suppression of this more chaste and ...
Page 132
... crowded house was the consequence .--- The tragedy had the advantage of new dresses and decorations , and the whole was gotten up , and acted , in a style worthy of so noble a production . JAN . 8 .--- King John .--- Mr . Kemble , Mr. C ...
... crowded house was the consequence .--- The tragedy had the advantage of new dresses and decorations , and the whole was gotten up , and acted , in a style worthy of so noble a production . JAN . 8 .--- King John .--- Mr . Kemble , Mr. C ...
Page 133
... crowded house , he sung the following curious parody on " Miss Bailey , " which was loudly encored . THE BAILIFF . Tune- " Miss Bailey . " A player bold in Staffordshire , set in for country quarters , Perhaps forgot a trifling debt ...
... crowded house , he sung the following curious parody on " Miss Bailey , " which was loudly encored . THE BAILIFF . Tune- " Miss Bailey . " A player bold in Staffordshire , set in for country quarters , Perhaps forgot a trifling debt ...
Page 149
... crowded himself into my house with J. Flaminius , a young nobleman , with whom I have formed an acquaintance : the conversation turned upon cruelty to animals . It was then I discovered him to be of the Pythagorean doctrine . He told us ...
... crowded himself into my house with J. Flaminius , a young nobleman , with whom I have formed an acquaintance : the conversation turned upon cruelty to animals . It was then I discovered him to be of the Pythagorean doctrine . He told us ...
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Page 406 - How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 336 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 164 - A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 379 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Page 123 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 164 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 259 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 51 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 337 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 61 - I ask to be allowed to display the best energies of my character, to shed the last drop of my blood in support of your Majesty's person, crown, and dignity ; for this is not a war for empire, glory, or dominion, but for existence. In this contest the lowest and humblest of your Majesty's subjects have been called...