The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 15proprieters., 1802 |
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Page 67
... Colonel Noel , Francis Munday , Esq . and Mr. Bilsborrow , and were well supported . The female characters were filled by the three Miss Hamiltons , whose theatrical merits are too well known to need any other comment than merely to say ...
... Colonel Noel , Francis Munday , Esq . and Mr. Bilsborrow , and were well supported . The female characters were filled by the three Miss Hamiltons , whose theatrical merits are too well known to need any other comment than merely to say ...
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... Colonel Henry Greville , of Hanover - square . The Rev. Henry Heathcote , Rector of Walton , near Liverpool , and brother to the Dowager Countess of Macclesfield , Lately , on his passage home from the West Indies , Brigadier General ...
... Colonel Henry Greville , of Hanover - square . The Rev. Henry Heathcote , Rector of Walton , near Liverpool , and brother to the Dowager Countess of Macclesfield , Lately , on his passage home from the West Indies , Brigadier General ...
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... Colonel Wilson's His- tory of the British Expedition to Egypt Dr. Blegborough's Facts and Ob- servations respecting the Air- pump Vapour Bath PROVINCIAL DRAMA , & c . 105 Wolverhampton ...................... Birmingham 135 136 112 News ...
... Colonel Wilson's His- tory of the British Expedition to Egypt Dr. Blegborough's Facts and Ob- servations respecting the Air- pump Vapour Bath PROVINCIAL DRAMA , & c . 105 Wolverhampton ...................... Birmingham 135 136 112 News ...
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... Colonel Martin was confined , and in which he spent twenty - seven years in repenting his former patriotism , is well proportioned , and commands a pleasing view of the river and woods which skirt the opposite shore . Exclusive of its ...
... Colonel Martin was confined , and in which he spent twenty - seven years in repenting his former patriotism , is well proportioned , and commands a pleasing view of the river and woods which skirt the opposite shore . Exclusive of its ...
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... Colonel of Cavalry in His Britannic Majesty's Service , and Knight of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Theresa . " WHEN a military man hazards a publication , " Sir Robert observes , in his preface , " he should , if possible ...
... Colonel of Cavalry in His Britannic Majesty's Service , and Knight of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Theresa . " WHEN a military man hazards a publication , " Sir Robert observes , in his preface , " he should , if possible ...
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Page 43 - O Hamlet, speak no more : Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Page 380 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Page 20 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 15 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Page 386 - Though were his sight convey'd from zone to zone, He would not find one spot of ground his own, Yet, as he looks around, he cries with glee, These bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their...
Page 300 - I was occupied, or ought to have been, in the study of the law; from thirty-three to sixty I have spent my time in the country, where my reading has been only an apology for idleness, and where, when I had not either a magazine or a review, I was sometimes a carpenter, at others a birdcage maker, or a gardener, or a drawer of landscapes. At fifty years of age I commenced an author : — it is a whim that has served me longest and best, and will probably be my last.
Page 175 - Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews ; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old and New Testaments.
Page 407 - I answer: This extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence, with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them : the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression, and beauty of oratorical numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
Page 407 - This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure.
Page 106 - ... in the hospital, was the only measure which could be adopted. The physician, alarmed at the proposal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cause of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, representing the cruelty as well as the atrocity of such a murder ; but finding that...