The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 22proprietors, 1806 |
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... labours with convulsive throes ; The mountain yawns ; the molten torrent flows , Pours down a fiery deluge , and devours The blazing forest , and devoted bowers . The bowers of pleasure perish e'en like these , While 10 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... labours with convulsive throes ; The mountain yawns ; the molten torrent flows , Pours down a fiery deluge , and devours The blazing forest , and devoted bowers . The bowers of pleasure perish e'en like these , While 10 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
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... labours of the mind to their readers . Under such justifications we can honestly give in our testimony with regard to this produc- tion , which is a very interesting collection of valuable facts , and judicious observations upon them ...
... labours of the mind to their readers . Under such justifications we can honestly give in our testimony with regard to this produc- tion , which is a very interesting collection of valuable facts , and judicious observations upon them ...
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... labour , have compounded a whole after the purest and most sterling models . Farmer Ashfield , Job Thornberry , and ... labours that aimed at imparting the higher pleasures of legitimate comedy , and handing back burlesque to its proper ...
... labour , have compounded a whole after the purest and most sterling models . Farmer Ashfield , Job Thornberry , and ... labours that aimed at imparting the higher pleasures of legitimate comedy , and handing back burlesque to its proper ...
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... labour on the most pro- ductive soil , rather than distract his powers by too high and various attempts . If therefore we have rather improved in fable , though we have , in a great measure , lost the wit and satire of our prede ...
... labour on the most pro- ductive soil , rather than distract his powers by too high and various attempts . If therefore we have rather improved in fable , though we have , in a great measure , lost the wit and satire of our prede ...
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... labour freed , rejoices . Happy he , The cottager obscure , who at his door , Vine hung , and grac'd with rustic industry , Awaits , with brow compos'd , that placid hour , When , in the glowing west , appears sublime The sliding beam ...
... labour freed , rejoices . Happy he , The cottager obscure , who at his door , Vine hung , and grac'd with rustic industry , Awaits , with brow compos'd , that placid hour , When , in the glowing west , appears sublime The sliding beam ...
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Page 388 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 84 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
Page 393 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly...
Page 164 - Not so Tiney ; upon him the kindest treatment had not the least effect. He too was sick, and in his sickness had an equal share of my attention ; but if, after his recovery, I took the liberty to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore feet, spring forward, and bite.
Page 164 - Bess, who died soon after he was full grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning.
Page 163 - Puss grew presently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise himself upon his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples.
Page 403 - Unhonoured the pilgrim from life should depart ? When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall...
Page 307 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 165 - It is no wonder that my intimate acquaintance with these specimens of the kind, has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of life, and that, impressed as they seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it.
Page 69 - ... to his brother, the King of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declare war against England; from which letter the Ministry sent out orders to the then Sir John Jervis to strike a stroke, if opportunity offered, against either the arsenals of Spain or her fleets. That neither of these was done, is not the fault of Lady Hamilton; the opportunity might have been offered.