The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., 6 tomasproprietors, 1809 |
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... Tell my father it is I , his daughter , Nancy ; where's my sister ? " The sash was then shut down , and all was silent again . Now , thought I , now will the door be opened , and this sweet penitent will be again received into the home ...
... Tell my father it is I , his daughter , Nancy ; where's my sister ? " The sash was then shut down , and all was silent again . Now , thought I , now will the door be opened , and this sweet penitent will be again received into the home ...
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... tell , but a good actress she is , and a lovely discreet girl into the bargain ; but ' tis said she leaves for Portsmouth , through some quarrel with the managers , as they have cast her into the back 56 THE MONTHLY MIRROR . Comedians ...
... tell , but a good actress she is , and a lovely discreet girl into the bargain ; but ' tis said she leaves for Portsmouth , through some quarrel with the managers , as they have cast her into the back 56 THE MONTHLY MIRROR . Comedians ...
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... tell that the former pinches , and that the latter does not . But place an awl or a pen into his right hand , and ' tis ten to one he can go but a little way towards mending either . Captain Gregory Higgins , has a very pretty house in ...
... tell that the former pinches , and that the latter does not . But place an awl or a pen into his right hand , and ' tis ten to one he can go but a little way towards mending either . Captain Gregory Higgins , has a very pretty house in ...
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... tell our Managers what they should acquire , but as A clear stage and no favour is my motto , I will , with all due deference , tell them what they should destroy . In the first place I would shew no mercy to a certain spurious ...
... tell our Managers what they should acquire , but as A clear stage and no favour is my motto , I will , with all due deference , tell them what they should destroy . In the first place I would shew no mercy to a certain spurious ...
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... Tell me , I pray , is it possible to honour the talents of a come- dian , without doing honour to the profession , seeing that the ta lent is its essence ? Any profession , indeed , the exercise of which might give him , who embraced it ...
... Tell me , I pray , is it possible to honour the talents of a come- dian , without doing honour to the profession , seeing that the ta lent is its essence ? Any profession , indeed , the exercise of which might give him , who embraced it ...
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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.
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102 psl. - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
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.
76 psl. - 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...
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.
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