The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 17Proprietors., 1804 - Great Britain |
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... ORIGINAL PAINTING BY OPIE . CONTENTS . 37 News , & c . ' London : PRINTED , FOR THE PROPRIETORS , By J. Wright , No. 38 , St. John's Square , Clerkenwell , And published by Vernor and Hood , in the Poultry ; Sold , also , by all the ...
... ORIGINAL PAINTING BY OPIE . CONTENTS . 37 News , & c . ' London : PRINTED , FOR THE PROPRIETORS , By J. Wright , No. 38 , St. John's Square , Clerkenwell , And published by Vernor and Hood , in the Poultry ; Sold , also , by all the ...
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... original . Perhaps he thought it a disgrace to his in- strument to be eternized in the hands of so much apparent poverty . However , when a person of low station adorns himself with trophies to which he has no pretensions to aspire , he ...
... original . Perhaps he thought it a disgrace to his in- strument to be eternized in the hands of so much apparent poverty . However , when a person of low station adorns himself with trophies to which he has no pretensions to aspire , he ...
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... original secret of Free Masons : of whom John Wastel , the master mason , contracted to employ not less than sixty , for carrying on the works of this chapel . This note I am authorized to add , by a gentleman who has made the structure ...
... original secret of Free Masons : of whom John Wastel , the master mason , contracted to employ not less than sixty , for carrying on the works of this chapel . This note I am authorized to add , by a gentleman who has made the structure ...
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... original sermon from which this is published was produced in January 1745-6 , and has been reprinted by Mr. Pocock , the edi- tor , as applicable to the present times , and calculated to promote that spirit of zeal and loyalty which ...
... original sermon from which this is published was produced in January 1745-6 , and has been reprinted by Mr. Pocock , the edi- tor , as applicable to the present times , and calculated to promote that spirit of zeal and loyalty which ...
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... original Historians . By William Scolfield . 2 Vols . 4s . Phillips . 180S . Ir is a vulgar saying , that the devil can quote scripture to an- swer his purpose . And Mr. Scolfield can , it seems , form “ Bible stories " to answer his ...
... original Historians . By William Scolfield . 2 Vols . 4s . Phillips . 180S . Ir is a vulgar saying , that the devil can quote scripture to an- swer his purpose . And Mr. Scolfield can , it seems , form “ Bible stories " to answer his ...
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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...