The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volumul 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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Pagina 7
... never deserve anye better remembraunce , let me be epitaphed The Inventour of the English Hexameter , whome learned M. Stani- hurst imitated in his Virgill ; and excellent Sir Philip Sidney disdained not to follow in his Arcadia , and ...
... never deserve anye better remembraunce , let me be epitaphed The Inventour of the English Hexameter , whome learned M. Stani- hurst imitated in his Virgill ; and excellent Sir Philip Sidney disdained not to follow in his Arcadia , and ...
Pagina 16
... never known to have been in such a flourishing state , as since we have all become too idle to go ! We occasionally give private instructions to those who have a desire of joining us , and as we consider melancholy as no- thing but ...
... never known to have been in such a flourishing state , as since we have all become too idle to go ! We occasionally give private instructions to those who have a desire of joining us , and as we consider melancholy as no- thing but ...
Pagina 20
... never cease his pursuit till he had accomplished his purpose ; and so poisonous was his rancorous heart , that the tomb itself proved no antidote against it : he would , even after death , vo- mit forth his invidious spite to the ...
... never cease his pursuit till he had accomplished his purpose ; and so poisonous was his rancorous heart , that the tomb itself proved no antidote against it : he would , even after death , vo- mit forth his invidious spite to the ...
Pagina 22
... never divided from one or other of them for they found her so eminently useful , that she was scarcely ever unemployed , and , by continual practice , the habit of a never- failing attention grew upon her ; and she observed her task ...
... never divided from one or other of them for they found her so eminently useful , that she was scarcely ever unemployed , and , by continual practice , the habit of a never- failing attention grew upon her ; and she observed her task ...
Pagina 24
... never resides in large and populous cities , but is always to be found in country towns and villages . She is to be met with in all societies , and it is said a barber's shop is her constant resort . But her favourite com- panions are a ...
... never resides in large and populous cities , but is always to be found in country towns and villages . She is to be met with in all societies , and it is said a barber's shop is her constant resort . But her favourite com- panions are a ...
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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...