The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 17Proprietors., 1804 - Great Britain |
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... present age , or any nation has produced , demonstrates , absolutely demonstrates , that dreams , even all dreams whatever , proceed , and can proceed only , from the agency of unembodied spirits on the human mind . Strange at this ...
... present age , or any nation has produced , demonstrates , absolutely demonstrates , that dreams , even all dreams whatever , proceed , and can proceed only , from the agency of unembodied spirits on the human mind . Strange at this ...
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... presents , or new year's gifts , one to another . " The poet Naogeorgus says , * that it was usual , at that time , for friends to present each other with a new year's gift ; for the hus- band , the wife ; the parents , their children ...
... presents , or new year's gifts , one to another . " The poet Naogeorgus says , * that it was usual , at that time , for friends to present each other with a new year's gift ; for the hus- band , the wife ; the parents , their children ...
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... present us with a clear and copious body of information , on scenes the most interesting , and events the most important . To supply this desideratum appears to have been Mr. Adolphus's motive for undertaking the present work , in which ...
... present us with a clear and copious body of information , on scenes the most interesting , and events the most important . To supply this desideratum appears to have been Mr. Adolphus's motive for undertaking the present work , in which ...
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... present vo- lumes , but may be rather considered as forming a general introduc- tion to the whole . The Poetical Magazine , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , Price 1s . each , to be continued Monthly . Vernor and Hood . WE are highly pleased with this ...
... present vo- lumes , but may be rather considered as forming a general introduc- tion to the whole . The Poetical Magazine , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , Price 1s . each , to be continued Monthly . Vernor and Hood . WE are highly pleased with this ...
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... present translator has repeatedly a decided superi- ority . The non contemnendum opus of Quintilian , and the alwros of Longinus , which Fawkes justly observes implies that Apollonius is no where elevated , as well as signifies that he ...
... present translator has repeatedly a decided superi- ority . The non contemnendum opus of Quintilian , and the alwros of Longinus , which Fawkes justly observes implies that Apollonius is no where elevated , as well as signifies that he ...
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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...