The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... whole senate , prescribed certaine lawes and rules of quantities of English sillables , for English verse : having had thereof already greate practise , and drawen mee to their faction . Newe bookes I heare of none , but only of one ...
... whole senate , prescribed certaine lawes and rules of quantities of English sillables , for English verse : having had thereof already greate practise , and drawen mee to their faction . Newe bookes I heare of none , but only of one ...
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... whole of the reign , and the effects of parliamentary eloquence in guiding the public mind , will not think the narrative of these discussions too minute . " So far we agree with him , but when we had the speeches of men of no great ...
... whole of the reign , and the effects of parliamentary eloquence in guiding the public mind , will not think the narrative of these discussions too minute . " So far we agree with him , but when we had the speeches of men of no great ...
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... whole of upper India gradually submitted to the Moslem yoke , and the tyrant Mahmud , of Gazna , in the succeeding ... whole nation in a light peculiarly sacred . Its very name was pronounced with reve- rential awe , and , according to ...
... whole of upper India gradually submitted to the Moslem yoke , and the tyrant Mahmud , of Gazna , in the succeeding ... whole nation in a light peculiarly sacred . Its very name was pronounced with reve- rential awe , and , according to ...
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... whole city was crowded with those enchanting women , selected for sacred purposes , from the noblest families , and called the girls of the idol : the shrieks therefore of violated beauty , added to the cries of a numerous and frantic ...
... whole city was crowded with those enchanting women , selected for sacred purposes , from the noblest families , and called the girls of the idol : the shrieks therefore of violated beauty , added to the cries of a numerous and frantic ...
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... whole temple . In the midst stood Sumnaut himself , an idol composed of one entire stone , fifty cubits in height , forty - seven of which were buried in the ground ; and , on that spot , according to the Brahmins , he had been ...
... whole temple . In the midst stood Sumnaut himself , an idol composed of one entire stone , fifty cubits in height , forty - seven of which were buried in the ground ; and , on that spot , according to the Brahmins , he had been ...
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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...