The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., 22. köideproprietors, 1806 |
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... object of his passion , will hardly refrain from acts of dis- honesty when strongly tempted ; but I have known many of the jackdaw hoarders , who were men of the most inviolable integrity . Of these the late Mr. Elwes , * who carried ...
... object of his passion , will hardly refrain from acts of dis- honesty when strongly tempted ; but I have known many of the jackdaw hoarders , who were men of the most inviolable integrity . Of these the late Mr. Elwes , * who carried ...
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... object of considerable importance . I am not so thoughtless as to look for a dispute with such an opponent on doubtful ground , or for a trivial object . All I desire of him , and I am sure he is too libe- ral to do otherwise , is to ...
... object of considerable importance . I am not so thoughtless as to look for a dispute with such an opponent on doubtful ground , or for a trivial object . All I desire of him , and I am sure he is too libe- ral to do otherwise , is to ...
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... object , but only failed where nothing could succeed , The bill having been read a third time , the speaker submitted to the house that that was an improper stage for such a proceeding , and that the motion could not be entertained ...
... object , but only failed where nothing could succeed , The bill having been read a third time , the speaker submitted to the house that that was an improper stage for such a proceeding , and that the motion could not be entertained ...
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... object has been to convey a lesson on the miseries of faction , and to exhibit the conflict be- tween duty and passion , and the consequences of the latter in vir- tuous minds . " In this he has been successful ; but Mr. Malkin's forte ...
... object has been to convey a lesson on the miseries of faction , and to exhibit the conflict be- tween duty and passion , and the consequences of the latter in vir- tuous minds . " In this he has been successful ; but Mr. Malkin's forte ...
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... object to English opera , though I prefer the Ita- lian . Ours is decidedly unnatural ; but it professes to delight at the expence of probability , and can be criticised only on its own princi- ples . The Duenna and Incle and Yarico ...
... object to English opera , though I prefer the Ita- lian . Ours is decidedly unnatural ; but it professes to delight at the expence of probability , and can be criticised only on its own princi- ples . The Duenna and Incle and Yarico ...
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Page 388 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 84 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
Page 393 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly...
Page 164 - Not so Tiney ; upon him the kindest treatment had not the least effect. He too was sick, and in his sickness had an equal share of my attention ; but if, after his recovery, I took the liberty to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore feet, spring forward, and bite.
Page 164 - Bess, who died soon after he was full grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a hare of great humour and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage ; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning.
Page 163 - Puss grew presently familiar, would leap into my lap, raise himself upon his hinder feet, and bite the hair from my temples.
Page 403 - Unhonoured the pilgrim from life should depart ? When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall...
Page 307 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 165 - It is no wonder that my intimate acquaintance with these specimens of the kind, has taught me to hold the sportsman's amusement in abhorrence : he little knows what amiable creatures he persecutes, of what gratitude they are capable, how cheerful they are in their spirits, what enjoyment they have of life, and that, impressed as they seem with a peculiar dread of man, it is only because man gives them peculiar cause for it.
Page 69 - ... to his brother, the King of Naples, acquainting him of his intention to declare war against England; from which letter the Ministry sent out orders to the then Sir John Jervis to strike a stroke, if opportunity offered, against either the arsenals of Spain or her fleets. That neither of these was done, is not the fault of Lady Hamilton; the opportunity might have been offered.