The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... less than to resignation . As , when his benefit failed , to such a degree that there was but twenty pounds in the house , he stili vaunted his at- tractions , and said , with enviable fatuity , " In regard to that point , the account ...
... less than to resignation . As , when his benefit failed , to such a degree that there was but twenty pounds in the house , he stili vaunted his at- tractions , and said , with enviable fatuity , " In regard to that point , the account ...
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... less in singing . Lov'd patrons , on this night we sever , Farewell ! -and bless you all for ever ! Madame Storace made her first appearance on the English stage in Adela , in the Haunted Tower , on the first night of that Opera , and ...
... less in singing . Lov'd patrons , on this night we sever , Farewell ! -and bless you all for ever ! Madame Storace made her first appearance on the English stage in Adela , in the Haunted Tower , on the first night of that Opera , and ...
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... less than five hundred ; yet the management of the various groups and of the light and shade is so excellent , that he has bustle and tumult without confusion , and the eye is agreeably led through the various scenes of rustic merriment ...
... less than five hundred ; yet the management of the various groups and of the light and shade is so excellent , that he has bustle and tumult without confusion , and the eye is agreeably led through the various scenes of rustic merriment ...
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... less cu- rious in his observation of the peasantry in the neigh- bourhood of the place of his nativity ; and , even in the streets of the metropolis , he has been seen to stop and to pay great attention to groups of low characters . He ...
... less cu- rious in his observation of the peasantry in the neigh- bourhood of the place of his nativity ; and , even in the streets of the metropolis , he has been seen to stop and to pay great attention to groups of low characters . He ...
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... less than three days , the state of her arm , in consequence of the accident , rendered amputation neces- sary , when so far from using her unhappy surgeon with the peevish resentment of a little mind , she requested of him not to be ...
... less than three days , the state of her arm , in consequence of the accident , rendered amputation neces- sary , when so far from using her unhappy surgeon with the peevish resentment of a little mind , she requested of him not to be ...
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Página 168 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Página 168 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Página 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
Página 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 166 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.