The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volum 12Proprietors., 1801 |
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Pàgina 12
... BEAUTY , deceitful promiser , away ! Why tint thy visage with Aurora's bloom ? Why with celestial fire thy eyes illume ? Why with a Seraph's grace thy floating limbs display ? Does soft Deception need so bright a ray To dazzle Reason ...
... BEAUTY , deceitful promiser , away ! Why tint thy visage with Aurora's bloom ? Why with celestial fire thy eyes illume ? Why with a Seraph's grace thy floating limbs display ? Does soft Deception need so bright a ray To dazzle Reason ...
Pàgina 13
... beauty of chastity . Perhaps , long engulphed in the vortex of dissipation , it cannot rise again to the smooth surface of domestic tranquillity ; perhaps , habituated to the recesses of con- cealment and of shame , it cannot bear the ...
... beauty of chastity . Perhaps , long engulphed in the vortex of dissipation , it cannot rise again to the smooth surface of domestic tranquillity ; perhaps , habituated to the recesses of con- cealment and of shame , it cannot bear the ...
Pàgina 15
... beauty and delight , which the impotent intellect of the fool cannot conceive ; and unalterable , because united with reason : then , we should soon see presuming folly sinking to its proper level - the card table of antiquated ...
... beauty and delight , which the impotent intellect of the fool cannot conceive ; and unalterable , because united with reason : then , we should soon see presuming folly sinking to its proper level - the card table of antiquated ...
Pàgina 16
... beauty of thought and sublimity of description ; those , in particular , which relate to the Deity and his works , infinitely surpass the best attempts of ancient or modern bards . In that passage of the Iliad where Jupiter is described ...
... beauty of thought and sublimity of description ; those , in particular , which relate to the Deity and his works , infinitely surpass the best attempts of ancient or modern bards . In that passage of the Iliad where Jupiter is described ...
Pàgina 17
... as may be seen in the Old Edition of the Common Prayer , and Dryden has literally copied the quhole beauty of the idea . C - VOL . XII . knowledge , that more sense has been discovered in these THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 17.
... as may be seen in the Old Edition of the Common Prayer , and Dryden has literally copied the quhole beauty of the idea . C - VOL . XII . knowledge , that more sense has been discovered in these THE MONTHLY MIRROR . 17.
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Pàgina 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pàgina 165 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
Pàgina 390 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Pàgina 383 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pàgina 166 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Pàgina 313 - It is a weary interlude — Which doth short joys, long woes, include; • The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death.
Pàgina 241 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Pàgina 117 - ... the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world.
Pàgina 227 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Pàgina 164 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.