The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volumul 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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Pagina 19
... living . They had been married 147 years , and had two sons and a daughter living , their youngest son was 116 , and had two grand- sons alive , one 35 , and the other 33. The second picture represent- ed Peter Zorten , a peasant of the ...
... living . They had been married 147 years , and had two sons and a daughter living , their youngest son was 116 , and had two grand- sons alive , one 35 , and the other 33. The second picture represent- ed Peter Zorten , a peasant of the ...
Pagina 25
... living sovereign , and , of descanting on the conduct and motives of men who yet survive , or who have been recently removed from the busy scene . I was aware that bitter calumny or fulsome adulation had disfigured most of their ...
... living sovereign , and , of descanting on the conduct and motives of men who yet survive , or who have been recently removed from the busy scene . I was aware that bitter calumny or fulsome adulation had disfigured most of their ...
Pagina 26
... living , whose rank , talents , and situ- ation , enabled them to form a just estimate of our national affairs , from the accession of his Majesty , to the peace of 1783. Possessed of such copious and satisfactory sources of knowledge ...
... living , whose rank , talents , and situ- ation , enabled them to form a just estimate of our national affairs , from the accession of his Majesty , to the peace of 1783. Possessed of such copious and satisfactory sources of knowledge ...
Pagina 39
... living poetical writers ; and notices of publications in the press , or preparing for it . It is the editor's intention , we should add , to publish the Poeti- cal Register in the month of February , for which purpose it is re- quested ...
... living poetical writers ; and notices of publications in the press , or preparing for it . It is the editor's intention , we should add , to publish the Poeti- cal Register in the month of February , for which purpose it is re- quested ...
Pagina 46
... living , who did confirm it . As strange an accident happened to a company of the same quality 60 years ago , or thereabout , who playing late in the night , at a place called Perin in Cornwall , certain Spaniards were landed the same ...
... living , who did confirm it . As strange an accident happened to a company of the same quality 60 years ago , or thereabout , who playing late in the night , at a place called Perin in Cornwall , certain Spaniards were landed the same ...
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Pagina 388 - 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 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 301 - For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames : I shewe his first beginning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Rivers throughout Englande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte names, and right passage, &c.
Pagina 406 - 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 318 - 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, 590 Press'd with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector, wrapt in everlasting sleep, Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
Pagina 318 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Pagina 7 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to' Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Pagina 302 - to represent all the moral virtues, assigning to every virtue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same, in whose actions and feats of arms and chivalry the operations of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to be expressed, and the vices and unruly appetites that oppose themselves against the same, to be beaten down and overcome.
Pagina 244 - Of women's looks ; but digged myself a cave, Where I, my fire, my cattle, and my bed, Might have been shut together in one shed ; And then had taken me some...
Pagina 300 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge...