The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Band 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... considered as the primus Artifex . Hence the following egotistic boast in one of his controversial strug- gles with Nash : " If I never deserve anye better remembraunce , let me be epitaphed The Inventour of the English Hexameter ...
... considered as the primus Artifex . Hence the following egotistic boast in one of his controversial strug- gles with Nash : " If I never deserve anye better remembraunce , let me be epitaphed The Inventour of the English Hexameter ...
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... considered as an amusement , and tacitly legalized by go- vernment , we may expect to see the evil increase , and bull - baiting become as fashionable as boxing . What wonder , if instead of the peaceable , sober , quiet , and ...
... considered as an amusement , and tacitly legalized by go- vernment , we may expect to see the evil increase , and bull - baiting become as fashionable as boxing . What wonder , if instead of the peaceable , sober , quiet , and ...
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... considered the great difficulty , arising from the paucity of materials , for carrying on any concatenated history of ' India , during the early and middle ages of the christian æra ; and having presented our readers with copious ...
... considered the great difficulty , arising from the paucity of materials , for carrying on any concatenated history of ' India , during the early and middle ages of the christian æra ; and having presented our readers with copious ...
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... considered this question over and over again , and maturely weighed every pro and con that occurred to me on the subject . It is urged by the " ante - novelists " that romances and novels serve only to estrange the minds of youth ...
... considered this question over and over again , and maturely weighed every pro and con that occurred to me on the subject . It is urged by the " ante - novelists " that romances and novels serve only to estrange the minds of youth ...
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... considered as an everlasting monument of his own and his pa- rents folly . I am , Mr. Editor , yours , as I hope I ever shall be , with all due respect . RIMELLI . DON QUIXOTE'S LIBRARY . DEAR H *** , IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND . You are ...
... considered as an everlasting monument of his own and his pa- rents folly . I am , Mr. Editor , yours , as I hope I ever shall be , with all due respect . RIMELLI . DON QUIXOTE'S LIBRARY . DEAR H *** , IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND . You are ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...