The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volumul 14proprietors, 1802 |
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Pagina 15
... merit I have a lively sense , and in whose company I have wasted many an elegant hour , in all the luxury of doing something that approaches so near to nothing , and which so eminently com- bines the languor of indolence , with the ...
... merit I have a lively sense , and in whose company I have wasted many an elegant hour , in all the luxury of doing something that approaches so near to nothing , and which so eminently com- bines the languor of indolence , with the ...
Pagina 23
... Merit of every description became prostituted in the invidious efforts for superiority , and the most brilliant qualities of the mind were sullied and obscured by detrac- tion and calumny . The weak and foolish became jealous , ran ...
... Merit of every description became prostituted in the invidious efforts for superiority , and the most brilliant qualities of the mind were sullied and obscured by detrac- tion and calumny . The weak and foolish became jealous , ran ...
Pagina 33
... merit of this history will be found to consist in the minute and correct detail which it gives of all the measures of the rebels , from the landing of the pretender , on the 25th of July 1745 , in the Bay of Lochnanuagh , on the western ...
... merit of this history will be found to consist in the minute and correct detail which it gives of all the measures of the rebels , from the landing of the pretender , on the 25th of July 1745 , in the Bay of Lochnanuagh , on the western ...
Pagina 36
... merit may be due to the first idea of such a repository undoubtedly belongs to France . It was not , however , till the year 1765 , that a volume of the kind appeared , worthy of preservation . In that year , the " Almanack des Muses ...
... merit may be due to the first idea of such a repository undoubtedly belongs to France . It was not , however , till the year 1765 , that a volume of the kind appeared , worthy of preservation . In that year , the " Almanack des Muses ...
Pagina 37
... merit , and many names of the highest celebrity . There is an agreeable variety also in a miscellany of this kind , which can rarely be met with in any volume of poems composed by a single writer . The grave and the gay may resort to it ...
... merit , and many names of the highest celebrity . There is an agreeable variety also in a miscellany of this kind , which can rarely be met with in any volume of poems composed by a single writer . The grave and the gay may resort to it ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 404 - 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.
Pagina 166 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Pagina 386 - 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...
Pagina 316 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore; As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led! In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine!
Pagina 150 - Thrice happy swain ! A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs, then decided thine. For, lo ! conducted by the laughing Loves, This cool retreat his Musidora sought : Warm in her cheek the sultry season glow'd; And, rob'd in loose array, she came to bathe Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream.
Pagina 236 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Pagina 316 - 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, Press'd with a load of monumental clay! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Pagina 316 - My soul impels me to the embattled plains! Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. "Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates!
Pagina 294 - Fayel's hair, and put it among the powder, together with a little note he had written with his own blood to her ; and after he had given him the rites of burial, to make all the speed he could to France, and deliver the said box to Madame Fayel.