The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen1Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... piece for the stage , called the Venetian Outlaw , founded on the story of the Bravo of Venice . We cannot judge : of it as a composition ; but we remember that its dra- matic effect was very striking , and the applause it re- ceived ...
... piece for the stage , called the Venetian Outlaw , founded on the story of the Bravo of Venice . We cannot judge : of it as a composition ; but we remember that its dra- matic effect was very striking , and the applause it re- ceived ...
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... piece of money with a pistol , at a hundred paces distant . He was in- vincible with the small - sword . He spoke the principal languages of Europe , and had a general taste for the sciences . He was acquainted with all the great ...
... piece of money with a pistol , at a hundred paces distant . He was in- vincible with the small - sword . He spoke the principal languages of Europe , and had a general taste for the sciences . He was acquainted with all the great ...
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... pieces , and the ground was covered with their mutilated bodies ; they lost a multi- tude of officers ; and after this bloody and terrible bat- tle , all the great families of England were seen to wear mourning . I was sent two or three ...
... pieces , and the ground was covered with their mutilated bodies ; they lost a multi- tude of officers ; and after this bloody and terrible bat- tle , all the great families of England were seen to wear mourning . I was sent two or three ...
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... piece of music because an adequate performer could not readily be found to execute it : the truth is , this acknowledged difficulty of reading Milton , so far VOL . I. from being any proof of the poet's unskilfulness , is CABINET .
... piece of music because an adequate performer could not readily be found to execute it : the truth is , this acknowledged difficulty of reading Milton , so far VOL . I. from being any proof of the poet's unskilfulness , is CABINET .
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... you should put the same question to me , I will give you my concluding piece of advice , which is , that you should beware of introducing second - hand Rural VOL . I. E Tales and Essays , from the successful labours of your CABINET . $ 3.
... you should put the same question to me , I will give you my concluding piece of advice , which is , that you should beware of introducing second - hand Rural VOL . I. E Tales and Essays , from the successful labours of your CABINET . $ 3.
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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...