The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., 6 tomasproprietors, 1809 |
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... observed to you before , an in- sult is never forgiven . " I shall add four lines from CHURCHILL , and then gladly quit this worthless subject . " Doth a man stutter , look a - squint , or halt ? Mimics draw humour out of Nature's fault ...
... observed to you before , an in- sult is never forgiven . " I shall add four lines from CHURCHILL , and then gladly quit this worthless subject . " Doth a man stutter , look a - squint , or halt ? Mimics draw humour out of Nature's fault ...
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... observed this silent adventure , but at too . great a distance to discover that the highly - favoured party in it was our illustrious bard . Approaching nearer , they saw their friend , to whom , being awakened , they mentioned what had ...
... observed this silent adventure , but at too . great a distance to discover that the highly - favoured party in it was our illustrious bard . Approaching nearer , they saw their friend , to whom , being awakened , they mentioned what had ...
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... observed David calmly drawing a picture of the dying , as they were heaped up on the pile of the already murdered : when asked what he was doing there , he answered , with sang froid , ' I am catching the last emotion of nature in those ...
... observed David calmly drawing a picture of the dying , as they were heaped up on the pile of the already murdered : when asked what he was doing there , he answered , with sang froid , ' I am catching the last emotion of nature in those ...
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... observed by a neighbour very assiduously em- ployed in throwing water from a pool , by means of a frying pan , on the surrounding meadow , which happened to be burnt up . On being questioned as to the object of his labours , he observed ...
... observed by a neighbour very assiduously em- ployed in throwing water from a pool , by means of a frying pan , on the surrounding meadow , which happened to be burnt up . On being questioned as to the object of his labours , he observed ...
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... observed a mus . quito hovering round his face . Quashi eyed the insect very attentively ; at last , he saw him alight on his master's nose , and immediately fly off , Ah , d --- ---- n you heart , ' exclaimed the negro me d ---- n glad ...
... observed a mus . quito hovering round his face . Quashi eyed the insect very attentively ; at last , he saw him alight on his master's nose , and immediately fly off , Ah , d --- ---- n you heart , ' exclaimed the negro me d ---- n glad ...
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99 psl. - 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.
24 psl. - ... 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.
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170 psl. - 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.
39 psl. - 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.
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287 psl. - 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...
27 psl. - ... 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.
227 psl. - 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...
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