The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen1 |
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METHINKS , these Acts which are becoming so frequent , should be called Acts
of solvency ; since they enable men to pay debts , and ( which is extraordinary )
without money or effects . But to be serious . - - Acts of insolvency are occasional
...
METHINKS , these Acts which are becoming so frequent , should be called Acts
of solvency ; since they enable men to pay debts , and ( which is extraordinary )
without money or effects . But to be serious . - - Acts of insolvency are occasional
...
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The subject of the rondo is certainly not very new , the accompaniment however
is well arranged , and the whole produces rather a pleasing effect . “ To thy rocks
, stormy Lannow , adieu . ” A Ballad , by Anne Seward , set to Music , with an ...
The subject of the rondo is certainly not very new , the accompaniment however
is well arranged , and the whole produces rather a pleasing effect . “ To thy rocks
, stormy Lannow , adieu . ” A Ballad , by Anne Seward , set to Music , with an ...
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... would produce little effect , without the apparent sanction of some respectable
authority ; but it happens to be notorious , that Pope ' s satire upon the actors ,
originated in chagrin ; the bad success of a Dramatic piece called Three Hours
after ...
... would produce little effect , without the apparent sanction of some respectable
authority ; but it happens to be notorious , that Pope ' s satire upon the actors ,
originated in chagrin ; the bad success of a Dramatic piece called Three Hours
after ...
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It cannot for a moment be supposed that Handel was incapable of varying the
instrumental parts of his songs ; his other works abundantly prove his excellent
and universal knowledge of instrumental effect . Or is the Messiah in its original
form ...
It cannot for a moment be supposed that Handel was incapable of varying the
instrumental parts of his songs ; his other works abundantly prove his excellent
and universal knowledge of instrumental effect . Or is the Messiah in its original
form ...
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We cannot however omit to remark that in attempting a novelty of effect in the
whole , Mr . W . has sacrificed nature almost entirely ; the sky is like any thing but
a sky , but chietly resembles an asseinblage of full - buttomed wiys .
We cannot however omit to remark that in attempting a novelty of effect in the
whole , Mr . W . has sacrificed nature almost entirely ; the sky is like any thing but
a sky , but chietly resembles an asseinblage of full - buttomed wiys .
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Página 89 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?" — The king or queen shall say, "I solemnly promise so to do.
Página 58 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Página 107 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law...
Página 121 - And for a discerning man, somewhat too passionate a lover; for I like her with all her faults, nay, like her for her faults. Her follies are so natural, or so artful, that they become her, and those affectations which in another woman would be odious serve but to make her more agreeable.
Página 107 - You shall swear to be a true and faithful servant unto the King's Majesty, as one of his Majesty's Privy Council. You shall not know or understand of any manner of thing...
Página 82 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd...
Página 221 - Who was the cause of a long ten years war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman ! Woman, to man first as a blessing given; When innocence and love were in their prime, Happy...
Página 38 - To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of Hell, or accompany the choirs of Heaven.
Página 95 - His hed was balled, and shone as any glas, And eke his face, as it hadde ben anoint. He was a lord ful fat and in good point. His eyen stepe, and rolling in his hed, That stemed as a forneis of a led.
Página 93 - ... of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion: roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...