The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... soon join'd by Sir William Jones , Dr. Towers , Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Day , Mr. Horne Tooke , Col. Fitzpatrick , Lord Surrey , the Earls of Derby and Effingham , the Duke of Richmond , Mr. Sawbridge ; and most who had taken any part on the ...
... soon join'd by Sir William Jones , Dr. Towers , Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Day , Mr. Horne Tooke , Col. Fitzpatrick , Lord Surrey , the Earls of Derby and Effingham , the Duke of Richmond , Mr. Sawbridge ; and most who had taken any part on the ...
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... soon con- vinced them how repugnant they were to the genuine spirit of idle- ness . They of course have been repealed , and we have had an in- crease of near a hundred members , and the club was never known to have been in such a ...
... soon con- vinced them how repugnant they were to the genuine spirit of idle- ness . They of course have been repealed , and we have had an in- crease of near a hundred members , and the club was never known to have been in such a ...
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... soon reduced the exalted nature of man to the lowest degradation of vice and folly ; a thou- sand corroding passions were engendered in his heart , and the world appeared to be making hasty approaches to that state of depravity which ...
... soon reduced the exalted nature of man to the lowest degradation of vice and folly ; a thou- sand corroding passions were engendered in his heart , and the world appeared to be making hasty approaches to that state of depravity which ...
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... soon be my painful task to give the black details , and to trace through desolated India , their blood - stained steps . I shall attempt nei- ther to disguise , nor to palliate their crimes ; but display them , for the contem plation of ...
... soon be my painful task to give the black details , and to trace through desolated India , their blood - stained steps . I shall attempt nei- ther to disguise , nor to palliate their crimes ; but display them , for the contem plation of ...
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... soon each craving want appease , - For Plenty comes with Peace along . And you , fond parents , faithful wives , Who ve long for sons and husband's fear'd , Peace now shall save their precious lives ; They come by danger more endear'd ...
... soon each craving want appease , - For Plenty comes with Peace along . And you , fond parents , faithful wives , Who ve long for sons and husband's fear'd , Peace now shall save their precious lives ; They come by danger more endear'd ...
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Page 388 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 45 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 301 - For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames : I shewe his first beginning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Rivers throughout Englande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte names, and right passage, &c.
Page 406 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 318 - Behold the mighty Hector's wife ! Some haughty Greek, who lives thy tears to see, Embitters all thy woes, by naming me. The thoughts of glory past, and present shame, A thousand griefs shall waken at the name ! May I lie cold before that dreadful day, 590 Press'd with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Page 318 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page 7 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to' Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Page 302 - to represent all the moral virtues, assigning to every virtue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same, in whose actions and feats of arms and chivalry the operations of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to be expressed, and the vices and unruly appetites that oppose themselves against the same, to be beaten down and overcome.
Page 244 - Of women's looks ; but digged myself a cave, Where I, my fire, my cattle, and my bed, Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some...
Page 300 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge...