The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, 14. kötetProprietors., 1802 |
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16. oldal
... speaking , narrow and confined ideas , and act equally tyrannical towards their fellow creatures , whenever it is in their power ; this is the vice of the man and not of his education . It is a great misfortune that so many of our ...
... speaking , narrow and confined ideas , and act equally tyrannical towards their fellow creatures , whenever it is in their power ; this is the vice of the man and not of his education . It is a great misfortune that so many of our ...
25. oldal
... speak for himself . - Mr . Adolphus observes : " When I undertook the work which is now submitted to the public , I did not overlook the difficulties of the execution , nor overrate my own powers . " I fully appreciated the delicacy of ...
... speak for himself . - Mr . Adolphus observes : " When I undertook the work which is now submitted to the public , I did not overlook the difficulties of the execution , nor overrate my own powers . " I fully appreciated the delicacy of ...
40. oldal
... speak in tears . Ye patient poor , from wonder free , Your signs of joy I now survey , And hope your sallow cheeks to see Once more the bloom of health display . Of those poor babes who on your knees Imploring food have vainly hung ...
... speak in tears . Ye patient poor , from wonder free , Your signs of joy I now survey , And hope your sallow cheeks to see Once more the bloom of health display . Of those poor babes who on your knees Imploring food have vainly hung ...
44. oldal
... speaking emphatically the word tribe , must be taken to mean some particular family or division of his na- tion or sect , to which he belongs in a most peculiar manner . From this reasoning , it would follow that the poet intended to ...
... speaking emphatically the word tribe , must be taken to mean some particular family or division of his na- tion or sect , to which he belongs in a most peculiar manner . From this reasoning , it would follow that the poet intended to ...
45. oldal
... speak not the empty language of compliment when I affirm that I prefer your work to any other as a vehicle for enquiry , from a conviction that it contains more frank and impartial criti- cism , sound information on literary subjects ...
... speak not the empty language of compliment when I affirm that I prefer your work to any other as a vehicle for enquiry , from a conviction that it contains more frank and impartial criti- cism , sound information on literary subjects ...
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388. oldal - 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...
45. oldal - 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.
301. oldal - 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.
406. oldal - 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.
318. oldal - 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.
318. oldal - 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.
7. oldal - 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.
302. oldal - 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.
244. oldal - 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...
300. oldal - 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...