The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Band 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... caused his death . He ' was to have dined with me the next day , and I wondered at his not keeping his appointment , he being always punctual even in tri- Ales . On Monday I received the following note from him . " My worthy friend ...
... caused his death . He ' was to have dined with me the next day , and I wondered at his not keeping his appointment , he being always punctual even in tri- Ales . On Monday I received the following note from him . " My worthy friend ...
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... cause her cease ; She , wounded , springs , bedeck'd with crown of Peace . " Virescit vulnere Veritas . S. K. CHATTERTON , It is not our intention or desire to touch , in the remotest manner , on the long and well - known controversy ...
... cause her cease ; She , wounded , springs , bedeck'd with crown of Peace . " Virescit vulnere Veritas . S. K. CHATTERTON , It is not our intention or desire to touch , in the remotest manner , on the long and well - known controversy ...
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... cause sufficient to lament the ravages of a very few hours . Parties filed off to various occupations : some to demolish houses , others to pull down dikes , some to root up hedges , others to cut down trees . In short , this ruthless ...
... cause sufficient to lament the ravages of a very few hours . Parties filed off to various occupations : some to demolish houses , others to pull down dikes , some to root up hedges , others to cut down trees . In short , this ruthless ...
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... cause of the mutation of monarchies and states . He deter- mines that these revolutions ought to be considered as the punish- ments of Heaven , inflicted on great national vices : he corroborates his position by the citation of divers ...
... cause of the mutation of monarchies and states . He deter- mines that these revolutions ought to be considered as the punish- ments of Heaven , inflicted on great national vices : he corroborates his position by the citation of divers ...
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... cause of the failure of mine ; if not , I will hereafter assign that cause , together with a simple state- ment of FACTS , ' in my turn , in which the enumeration of some circumstances , 1 VOL . XV . when made known , may make the ...
... cause of the failure of mine ; if not , I will hereafter assign that cause , together with a simple state- ment of FACTS , ' in my turn , in which the enumeration of some circumstances , 1 VOL . XV . when made known , may make the ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...