The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volum 15proprieters., 1802 |
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Pàgina 8
... effect , as most powerfully exemplified in the succeeding operas of Mr. Cobb ; but we will record them in regular succession . THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE , 1791. The Prince of Wales , during its progress to performance , finding the ...
... effect , as most powerfully exemplified in the succeeding operas of Mr. Cobb ; but we will record them in regular succession . THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE , 1791. The Prince of Wales , during its progress to performance , finding the ...
Pàgina 13
... effect is alreadie translated into English prose . " The poem is composed in lines of fourteen syllables , but the l'Envoy only is here given , as affixed to a wood - cut of " VERITIE PURTRAIED . " From seate supernal of celestial Jove ...
... effect is alreadie translated into English prose . " The poem is composed in lines of fourteen syllables , but the l'Envoy only is here given , as affixed to a wood - cut of " VERITIE PURTRAIED . " From seate supernal of celestial Jove ...
Pàgina 35
... effects of natural scenery , and the education of a rude age , in forming the mind of a hero ; which is admirably executed in the difficult stanza of Spenser , of which great master our poet appears a zealous lover , and a laudable ...
... effects of natural scenery , and the education of a rude age , in forming the mind of a hero ; which is admirably executed in the difficult stanza of Spenser , of which great master our poet appears a zealous lover , and a laudable ...
Pàgina 36
... The latter verses are very inferior to the original . The former con- tains an idea not unlike one we have met with in two Greek lines to this effect : Soon fades the rose ; once pass'd the fragrant hour 36 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... The latter verses are very inferior to the original . The former con- tains an idea not unlike one we have met with in two Greek lines to this effect : Soon fades the rose ; once pass'd the fragrant hour 36 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
Pàgina 44
... effect upon the pub- lic , will achieve more in six months towards the formation of a good actress , than two years instruction in private , whatever may be the talents and ability of the master . I do not think I am actuated by any ...
... effect upon the pub- lic , will achieve more in six months towards the formation of a good actress , than two years instruction in private , whatever may be the talents and ability of the master . I do not think I am actuated by any ...
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Pàgina 43 - O Hamlet, speak no more : Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Pàgina 380 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Pàgina 20 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Pàgina 15 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Pàgina 386 - Though were his sight convey'd from zone to zone, He would not find one spot of ground his own, Yet, as he looks around, he cries with glee, These bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their...
Pàgina 300 - I was occupied, or ought to have been, in the study of the law; from thirty-three to sixty I have spent my time in the country, where my reading has been only an apology for idleness, and where, when I had not either a magazine or a review, I was sometimes a carpenter, at others a birdcage maker, or a gardener, or a drawer of landscapes. At fifty years of age I commenced an author : — it is a whim that has served me longest and best, and will probably be my last.
Pàgina 175 - Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews ; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old and New Testaments.
Pàgina 407 - I answer: This extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence, with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them : the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression, and beauty of oratorical numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
Pàgina 407 - This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure.
Pàgina 106 - ... in the hospital, was the only measure which could be adopted. The physician, alarmed at the proposal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cause of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, representing the cruelty as well as the atrocity of such a murder ; but finding that...