The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 15proprieters., 1802 |
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Pagina 6
... song , sung in it by Charles Bannister , which at once proves the genius and the philanthropy of its author . I. When in war on the ocean we meet the proud foe , Though with ardour for conquest our bosoms may glow ; Let us see on their ...
... song , sung in it by Charles Bannister , which at once proves the genius and the philanthropy of its author . I. When in war on the ocean we meet the proud foe , Though with ardour for conquest our bosoms may glow ; Let us see on their ...
Pagina 11
... songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to set the table on a roar ? " He was of a kind and benevolent nature ; hospitable almost to a fault ; of scrupulous integrity , and unaffected piety . In a word , I never knew a more ...
... songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to set the table on a roar ? " He was of a kind and benevolent nature ; hospitable almost to a fault ; of scrupulous integrity , and unaffected piety . In a word , I never knew a more ...
Pagina 14
... always be found in the same vein . The popular song of Old Towler is evidently a parody on these , the first three verses of the Bristowe Tragedie : The featherd songster chaunticleer Han wounde hys bugle horne , 24 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... always be found in the same vein . The popular song of Old Towler is evidently a parody on these , the first three verses of the Bristowe Tragedie : The featherd songster chaunticleer Han wounde hys bugle horne , 24 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
Pagina 18
... song in May Morning . " The flowery May , who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose . " " " The sonnet concerning Rivers is the least interesting of any : -in it we are at a loss why he distinguishes the ...
... song in May Morning . " The flowery May , who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose . " " " The sonnet concerning Rivers is the least interesting of any : -in it we are at a loss why he distinguishes the ...
Pagina 30
... songs , and dances presents . The known æra of Scotish romance corresponds to that of Scotish song ; for the dirge of Alexander III . in Wyntown's Chronicle , is the earliest specimen of Caledonian song - writing , as the Sir Tris- tram ...
... songs , and dances presents . The known æra of Scotish romance corresponds to that of Scotish song ; for the dirge of Alexander III . in Wyntown's Chronicle , is the earliest specimen of Caledonian song - writing , as the Sir Tris- tram ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...