The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 12H.D. Symonds, 1801 |
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... play , has thus humourously described its nature and tendency . Proud of your smiles , once lavishly bestow'd , Again our young Don Quixote takes the road ; To shew his gratitude , he draws his pen , And seeks this hydra scandal in his ...
... play , has thus humourously described its nature and tendency . Proud of your smiles , once lavishly bestow'd , Again our young Don Quixote takes the road ; To shew his gratitude , he draws his pen , And seeks this hydra scandal in his ...
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... played Miss Hard Castle , with an agreeable simplicity - Miss Neville , by Miss De- Camp , was every thing that could be wished - and Bannister's Tony was truly laughable - the re- maining characters were well suited and performed , and ...
... played Miss Hard Castle , with an agreeable simplicity - Miss Neville , by Miss De- Camp , was every thing that could be wished - and Bannister's Tony was truly laughable - the re- maining characters were well suited and performed , and ...
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... play ! Thus , beaming glory as he flies , Age after age , he sweeps the skies ; Thus , bright as when he first arose , With undiminish'd heat he glows , And bears aloft , as centuries turn , Through heaven's wide arch his flaming urn ...
... play ! Thus , beaming glory as he flies , Age after age , he sweeps the skies ; Thus , bright as when he first arose , With undiminish'd heat he glows , And bears aloft , as centuries turn , Through heaven's wide arch his flaming urn ...
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... play , the butcher , & c . Here we were par- ticularly pleased with the milking - the satire on the Suffolk cheese , and the playing of the lambs- subjects which are treated by the poet with sprightliness and delicacy . The SUMMER ...
... play , the butcher , & c . Here we were par- ticularly pleased with the milking - the satire on the Suffolk cheese , and the playing of the lambs- subjects which are treated by the poet with sprightliness and delicacy . The SUMMER ...
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... Play'd on his lips , and in his speech was heard Paternal sweetness , dignity and love . The occupation dearest to his heart , Was to encourage goodness . He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth , That blush'd at his own ...
... Play'd on his lips , and in his speech was heard Paternal sweetness , dignity and love . The occupation dearest to his heart , Was to encourage goodness . He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth , That blush'd at his own ...
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Abenamar admiration Alexander Selkirk animals appears attention beauty breast called celebrated character charms Count of Burgundy cried Damberger daughter David Garrick dear death Earl eyes fame father favour Garrick genius give hand happy head heart heaven honour hope horses human Jemima Wilkinson kind king lady late live Liverpool London Lord LORD ROKEBY mankind manner master ment merchant mind Miss Monthly Visitor nature ne'er never night o'er occasion once Parnassian passion Patten performed persons pleasing pleasure poem poet poor present Prince Potemkin quadruped racter readers received respect Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD ROBERT BURNS Robinson Sallo says scene shew sleep soon soul sweet talents tears theatre thee thing Thomas Rodd thou tion Travels turn united kingdom virtue whilst Whitstable WILLIAM COWPER wish young youth
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Page 110 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 250 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 249 - Been hurt by th' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live. Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here much I ruminate, as much I may, With other views of men and manners now Than once, and others of a life to come...
Page 280 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 331 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...
Page 210 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 331 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Page 210 - Robert and his younger brother Gilbert had been grounded a little in English, before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences...
Page 344 - He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling, as an event likely to happen very soon ; and which gave him concern chiefly from leaving his four children so young and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying in of a fifth.
Page 111 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.