The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 17Proprietors., 1804 - Great Britain |
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... Christmas - box they bear , And one day makes them rich for all the year . Gay's Trivia . Iola , in the Gothic language , signifies to make merry . the British Saturnalia , by feasting and sending presents , 127 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... Christmas - box they bear , And one day makes them rich for all the year . Gay's Trivia . Iola , in the Gothic language , signifies to make merry . the British Saturnalia , by feasting and sending presents , 127 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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... language , though always admired , was never more in vogue in this country than it is at the present moment . The study of it is very general , and its character amongst languages promises to last as long as any taste exists for ...
... language , though always admired , was never more in vogue in this country than it is at the present moment . The study of it is very general , and its character amongst languages promises to last as long as any taste exists for ...
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... language of Johnson , " the critic may read for its eloquence , the philosopher for its argument , and the saint for its devotion . " The notes are numerous and well written , and display in the clearest terms the sense and spirit of ...
... language of Johnson , " the critic may read for its eloquence , the philosopher for its argument , and the saint for its devotion . " The notes are numerous and well written , and display in the clearest terms the sense and spirit of ...
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... language , or one more consonant to the feelings which animate my heart . In this I agree most perfectly with your majesty , I ought to be the first and foremost . It is the place which my birth assigns me , which Europe , which the ...
... language , or one more consonant to the feelings which animate my heart . In this I agree most perfectly with your majesty , I ought to be the first and foremost . It is the place which my birth assigns me , which Europe , which the ...
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... language in statement , or leave me somewhat deficient in the powers of explanation , when it can lead your mind , my dear brother , to such a palpable misconstruction ( for far be it from me to fancy it wilful ) of my meaning , as to ...
... language in statement , or leave me somewhat deficient in the powers of explanation , when it can lead your mind , my dear brother , to such a palpable misconstruction ( for far be it from me to fancy it wilful ) of my meaning , as to ...
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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...