The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., Volume 6proprietors, 1809 |
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... audience heard The Foundling of the Forest given out for repetition , with loud applause , and we indeed think it upon the whole a very ingenious performance for Mr. Dimond . But how do we judge ? We can only judge from what we know ...
... audience heard The Foundling of the Forest given out for repetition , with loud applause , and we indeed think it upon the whole a very ingenious performance for Mr. Dimond . But how do we judge ? We can only judge from what we know ...
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... audience , if there were no fathers ! By these remarks it may , perhaps , seem as if we thought Mr. Arnold's opera too long --- it is long enough . However , the ac- tion goes on smoothly , assisted by some very pretty scenery , a ...
... audience , if there were no fathers ! By these remarks it may , perhaps , seem as if we thought Mr. Arnold's opera too long --- it is long enough . However , the ac- tion goes on smoothly , assisted by some very pretty scenery , a ...
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... audience would have long since interdicted their appearance . Mr. Holmes has followed Mr. Carr , who was here two years ago , and to say the least in his dispraise , he is every thing which Mr. Carr was not ; Mr. Carr was invariably ...
... audience would have long since interdicted their appearance . Mr. Holmes has followed Mr. Carr , who was here two years ago , and to say the least in his dispraise , he is every thing which Mr. Carr was not ; Mr. Carr was invariably ...
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... audience had already assembled . Lady Bridget Sidebottom , and her three slim brothers occupied one stage box : Sir Sam . Weazle , and his imperious spouse nodded approbation from the other . Old Squeez'em , and his meagre wife , from ...
... audience had already assembled . Lady Bridget Sidebottom , and her three slim brothers occupied one stage box : Sir Sam . Weazle , and his imperious spouse nodded approbation from the other . Old Squeez'em , and his meagre wife , from ...
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... audience were hushed in mute attention , and the valiant captain had every pro- spect of a brilliant campaign . But alas , as the dictionary - maker says , What are the hopes of man ? A certain fashionable tailor , in whose books Beau ...
... audience were hushed in mute attention , and the valiant captain had every pro- spect of a brilliant campaign . But alas , as the dictionary - maker says , What are the hopes of man ? A certain fashionable tailor , in whose books Beau ...
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Page 99 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use: we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political.
Page 24 - ... fell asleep. Before he awoke, two ladies, who were foreigners, passed by in a carriage. Agreeably astonished at the loveliness of his appearance, they alighted, and having admired him (as they thought) unperceived, for some time, the youngest, who was very handsome, drew a pencil from her pocket, and having written some lines upon a piece of paper, put it with her trembling hand into his own.
Page 102 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Page 170 - And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 39 - A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back.
Page 76 - Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods again...
Page 287 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care ; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 27 - ... laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back.
Page 227 - Your trifle's no trifle, I ween, To customers prudent as I am ; Your peas in December are green, But I'm not so green as to buy 'em. • With ven'son I seldom am fed — Go bring me the sirloin, you ninny ; Who dines at a guinea a head Will ne'er by his head get a guinea...
Page 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.