The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 12Proprietors., 1801 |
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... Miss lived with him , either from liking her himself , as some think , or to tempt her to marry his Lilliputian figure , he had squandered vast and in living . He lost twelve hundred a year by Lord Albermarle's death , and four by Lord ...
... Miss lived with him , either from liking her himself , as some think , or to tempt her to marry his Lilliputian figure , he had squandered vast and in living . He lost twelve hundred a year by Lord Albermarle's death , and four by Lord ...
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... Miss Seward , and , in point of moral and religious tendency , is the very reverse of the preceding article . They who read for instruction will derive , also , considerable enter- tainment from these volumes . Narrative of the singular ...
... Miss Seward , and , in point of moral and religious tendency , is the very reverse of the preceding article . They who read for instruction will derive , also , considerable enter- tainment from these volumes . Narrative of the singular ...
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... Miss Tyrer , who is the express image of Mrs. Bland , was very lucky in her song and duett , which were both rapturously ap- plauded . Indeed , the whole of the music , as well the original airs composed by Mr. Kelly , as the selections ...
... Miss Tyrer , who is the express image of Mrs. Bland , was very lucky in her song and duett , which were both rapturously ap- plauded . Indeed , the whole of the music , as well the original airs composed by Mr. Kelly , as the selections ...
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... Miss Wheat- ley , and Mrs. Glover , from Covent - Garden , are among the principal perfor- mers . Various novelties have been produced , which have afforded the most ge- neral satisfaction to the audience . Theatre - Royal WEYMOUTH ...
... Miss Wheat- ley , and Mrs. Glover , from Covent - Garden , are among the principal perfor- mers . Various novelties have been produced , which have afforded the most ge- neral satisfaction to the audience . Theatre - Royal WEYMOUTH ...
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... Miss Lyddel Hamilton ; Cora , Miss Sophia Hamilton ; Virgins of the Sun , Miss C. Hamilton , Miss L. Hamilton ; Las Casas , Mr. Hamilton , and Elvira , ( Pizarro's Mistress ! Miss Hamilton . Tickets to be had of Mr. Hamilton , at the ...
... Miss Lyddel Hamilton ; Cora , Miss Sophia Hamilton ; Virgins of the Sun , Miss C. Hamilton , Miss L. Hamilton ; Las Casas , Mr. Hamilton , and Elvira , ( Pizarro's Mistress ! Miss Hamilton . Tickets to be had of Mr. Hamilton , at the ...
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Page 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 165 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
Page 390 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 383 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 166 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Page 313 - It is a weary interlude — Which doth short joys, long woes, include; • The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death.
Page 241 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Page 117 - ... the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world.
Page 227 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Page 164 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.