The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Volume 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 - Periodicals |
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... feelings , of human beings . As an art of imitation , Music , undoubtedly , ranks very low . Her resemblances are imperfect , but her sympathies are com- plete . She cannot paint a battle ; but she can give dignity , and even sub ...
... feelings , of human beings . As an art of imitation , Music , undoubtedly , ranks very low . Her resemblances are imperfect , but her sympathies are com- plete . She cannot paint a battle ; but she can give dignity , and even sub ...
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... feeling insinuates itself with Music , even when the singer is no moral agent , the poets have , with one consent , agreed to attribute passions to the nightingale , to which she doubtless is a stranger ; and have supposed that she ...
... feeling insinuates itself with Music , even when the singer is no moral agent , the poets have , with one consent , agreed to attribute passions to the nightingale , to which she doubtless is a stranger ; and have supposed that she ...
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... feelings of the soul , which he possessed , and well knew how to communicate ; but which cannot be received where the mind is not prepared . But , where any congenial dispositions exist , I have no doubt in saying , that no eloquence of ...
... feelings of the soul , which he possessed , and well knew how to communicate ; but which cannot be received where the mind is not prepared . But , where any congenial dispositions exist , I have no doubt in saying , that no eloquence of ...
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... feeling , almost too powerful to be sus- tained . If any thing can go beyond the effect of proclaiming the Saviour , " King of Kings , and Lord of Lords , " with al- ternate bursts of " Hallelujah , " it is the 20 On the Moral Effects ...
... feeling , almost too powerful to be sus- tained . If any thing can go beyond the effect of proclaiming the Saviour , " King of Kings , and Lord of Lords , " with al- ternate bursts of " Hallelujah , " it is the 20 On the Moral Effects ...
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... feelings of Miss Polly . In short , Mr. Director , I am appre- hensive that the Playhouse has done no- thing but prepare my boy for the high- way , and my girls for a bagnio . After` so much care and expence incurred in my children's ...
... feelings of Miss Polly . In short , Mr. Director , I am appre- hensive that the Playhouse has done no- thing but prepare my boy for the high- way , and my girls for a bagnio . After` so much care and expence incurred in my children's ...
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Page 229 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 285 - Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run bustling to and fro with foolish haste, In search of pleasures vain that from them fly, Or which obtain'd the caitiffs dare not taste: When nothing is enjoy'd, can there be greater waste?
Page 228 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 347 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Page 218 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maidservant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.
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Page 91 - Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo ! Henley stands. Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue. How sweet the periods, neither said...
Page 244 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.