The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Band 18proprietors, 1804 |
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... character , he again waited on the lady ; but the High constable had , in the mean time , prohibited the performance , and nothing but an application to Foote could enable them to exhibit the intended entertainments . Anxious to obtain ...
... character , he again waited on the lady ; but the High constable had , in the mean time , prohibited the performance , and nothing but an application to Foote could enable them to exhibit the intended entertainments . Anxious to obtain ...
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... character and to your pleasures . I beseech you therefore , with a meek and lowly spirit , to read the pages of that book , which the wisest and best of men have acknowledged to be the word of God . You will there find a rule of moral ...
... character and to your pleasures . I beseech you therefore , with a meek and lowly spirit , to read the pages of that book , which the wisest and best of men have acknowledged to be the word of God . You will there find a rule of moral ...
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... character of this correspondence , which is terminated by the death of the father , the ingenious and amiable Gessner . This event is announced to our young traveller by his brother , in a letter dated March 5 , 1788. We make no apo ...
... character of this correspondence , which is terminated by the death of the father , the ingenious and amiable Gessner . This event is announced to our young traveller by his brother , in a letter dated March 5 , 1788. We make no apo ...
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... Character . By the Rev. W. Cockburne , A. M. Fellow of St. John's Cambridge . 8vo . Hatchard . 1804 . If this is an authentic account of the death of Lord Camelford , we are sorry for it , since it tends to prove that this unhappy ...
... Character . By the Rev. W. Cockburne , A. M. Fellow of St. John's Cambridge . 8vo . Hatchard . 1804 . If this is an authentic account of the death of Lord Camelford , we are sorry for it , since it tends to prove that this unhappy ...
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... character of Madame de la Valliere is represented more in detail ; since it is her life which is more particularly the object of the present publication . I have invented many circumstances , but omitted nothing ; the entire history of ...
... character of Madame de la Valliere is represented more in detail ; since it is her life which is more particularly the object of the present publication . I have invented many circumstances , but omitted nothing ; the entire history of ...
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Seite 92 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Seite 159 - YE, who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents dignified by sacred zeal, Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just, Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England, exulting in his spotless fame, Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name.
Seite 9 - ... upon the people of another nation, almost upon creatures of another species. Their vast rambling mansions, spacious halls, and painted casements, the gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues...
Seite 311 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below...
Seite 140 - I feel a sense of obligation towards my creditors; who in case of accident to me, by the forced sale of my property, may be in some degree sufferers. I did not think myself at liberty as a man of probity, lightly to expose them to this hazard.
Seite 295 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Seite 381 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Seite 227 - ... years' time not one was left me. The truth is, that there may be, and often is, an attachment of one boy to another that looks very like a friendship, and, while they are in circumstances that enable them mutually to oblige and to assist each other, promises well and bids fair to be lasting. But they are no sooner separated from each other, by entering into the world at large, than other...
Seite 268 - Townly, rather than the cold, the sober, though virtuous Lady Grace ? How odious ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.
Seite 141 - The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or in effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice in this particular.