The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Band 6proprietors, 1809 |
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... shew that " Every man should be pleased with his own face , " and the folly of being discontented with it is put in such a very ludicrous light that we are rejoiced not to have cause to desire a change . Our Subscribers seem wisely ...
... shew that " Every man should be pleased with his own face , " and the folly of being discontented with it is put in such a very ludicrous light that we are rejoiced not to have cause to desire a change . Our Subscribers seem wisely ...
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... shew that if Mr. Hook's pieces were not all flyers , that is , if he could but stand still , or sit still a little , he has wit and invention enough to produce something very superior to what he has done . Killing no Murder soars in its ...
... shew that if Mr. Hook's pieces were not all flyers , that is , if he could but stand still , or sit still a little , he has wit and invention enough to produce something very superior to what he has done . Killing no Murder soars in its ...
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... shew . What we have described , makes it super- fluous to add , that Mr. Dimond's plot and persons would make a very good ballet of action ; but we are ready to allow it further merits . The colloquy is well adapted to the speakers ...
... shew . What we have described , makes it super- fluous to add , that Mr. Dimond's plot and persons would make a very good ballet of action ; but we are ready to allow it further merits . The colloquy is well adapted to the speakers ...
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... shew cause why an injunction should not issue to restrain the sale of The Imperial Calendar , which appears to be a pirated edition of the former . Amongst other errors copied , the words , the wives of , are left out of a passage ...
... shew cause why an injunction should not issue to restrain the sale of The Imperial Calendar , which appears to be a pirated edition of the former . Amongst other errors copied , the words , the wives of , are left out of a passage ...
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... shew no mercy to a certain spurious personage , born of Momus upon Thalia , and christened a Pun . A pun in conversation is as different from a pun in writing , as fencing is from assassination . The former is a private frolic : the ...
... shew no mercy to a certain spurious personage , born of Momus upon Thalia , and christened a Pun . A pun in conversation is as different from a pun in writing , as fencing is from assassination . The former is a private frolic : the ...
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Seite 99 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use: we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political.
Seite 24 - ... fell asleep. Before he awoke, two ladies, who were foreigners, passed by in a carriage. Agreeably astonished at the loveliness of his appearance, they alighted, and having admired him (as they thought) unperceived, for some time, the youngest, who was very handsome, drew a pencil from her pocket, and having written some lines upon a piece of paper, put it with her trembling hand into his own.
Seite 102 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Seite 170 - And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Seite 39 - A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
Seite 76 - Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods again...
Seite 287 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Seite 27 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back.
Seite 227 - Your trifle's no trifle, I ween, To customers prudent as I am ; Your peas in December are green, But I'm not so green as to buy 'em. • With ven'son I seldom am fed — Go bring me the sirloin, you ninny ; Who dines at a guinea a head Will ne'er by his head get a guinea...
Seite 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.