The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen1Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... Lady . Mr. Cobbett then draws a comparison between himself and Mr. She- ridan , ( risum teneatis ? ) and asks , whether " his habits contracted in tending of birds , and driving the plough . " ( He cautiously avoids any mention of the ...
... Lady . Mr. Cobbett then draws a comparison between himself and Mr. She- ridan , ( risum teneatis ? ) and asks , whether " his habits contracted in tending of birds , and driving the plough . " ( He cautiously avoids any mention of the ...
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... lady performed in Glasgow , the au- dience presented her with a gold medal , which they enclosed in the following letter : " Madam , " Accept this trifle from the Glasgow audience , who are as great admirers of genius , as the critics ...
... lady performed in Glasgow , the au- dience presented her with a gold medal , which they enclosed in the following letter : " Madam , " Accept this trifle from the Glasgow audience , who are as great admirers of genius , as the critics ...
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... Lady . On the contrary , a small share of stiffishness , ( pardon the phrase ) of preciseness , or , if you will , over correctness , seems to me , in her comedy , pretty apparent . Much of her Lady Teazle exhibits the excellencies ...
... Lady . On the contrary , a small share of stiffishness , ( pardon the phrase ) of preciseness , or , if you will , over correctness , seems to me , in her comedy , pretty apparent . Much of her Lady Teazle exhibits the excellencies ...
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... lady's exertions in comedy , in which only , in Scotland at least , I have seen her perform . Both in tragedy and comedy Mrs. Johnson maintains a respectable rank . The lovely Miss Benson promises something ; but to attain considerable ...
... lady's exertions in comedy , in which only , in Scotland at least , I have seen her perform . Both in tragedy and comedy Mrs. Johnson maintains a respectable rank . The lovely Miss Benson promises something ; but to attain considerable ...
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... lady to whose care she was confided , took no pains at all to prevent whatever might be the result of her forming such connections . Jane was possessed of a good figure , and a tolerably pretty face ; of course from the male sex she met ...
... lady to whose care she was confided , took no pains at all to prevent whatever might be the result of her forming such connections . Jane was possessed of a good figure , and a tolerably pretty face ; of course from the male sex she met ...
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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...