The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 13Proprietors., 1802 |
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... PORTRAIT OF MR . QUICK , IN THE CHARACTER OF SPADO , ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY , FROM A FINE PAINTING BY GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT , IN THE POSSESSION OF THOMAS HARRIS , ESQ . CONTENTS . Preface , MISCELLANEOUS . Biographical Sketch of Mr. Quick ...
... PORTRAIT OF MR . QUICK , IN THE CHARACTER OF SPADO , ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY , FROM A FINE PAINTING BY GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT , IN THE POSSESSION OF THOMAS HARRIS , ESQ . CONTENTS . Preface , MISCELLANEOUS . Biographical Sketch of Mr. Quick ...
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... portrait of NATHANIEL LEE , the celebrated dramatic poet , ( of whom no head has yet appeared ) from an original picture in the possession of J. P. KEMBLE , Esq . ERRATA IN OUR LAST . Page 415 , in the Note , for " Prime , " read " Rime ...
... portrait of NATHANIEL LEE , the celebrated dramatic poet , ( of whom no head has yet appeared ) from an original picture in the possession of J. P. KEMBLE , Esq . ERRATA IN OUR LAST . Page 415 , in the Note , for " Prime , " read " Rime ...
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... Portrait . ] MR . JOHN QUICK , one of the richest and most natural comedians that ever trod the English stage , was born in London , where his fa- ther carried on the business of a brewer . He was little more than twelve years old when ...
... Portrait . ] MR . JOHN QUICK , one of the richest and most natural comedians that ever trod the English stage , was born in London , where his fa- ther carried on the business of a brewer . He was little more than twelve years old when ...
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... portrait of Lucius , exemplifying the agonizing distresses of birth , character , and education struggling with poverty , is truly a subject for the heart of sensibility . On the other hand , the upstart pride of farmer gentlemen , and ...
... portrait of Lucius , exemplifying the agonizing distresses of birth , character , and education struggling with poverty , is truly a subject for the heart of sensibility . On the other hand , the upstart pride of farmer gentlemen , and ...
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... portraits sometimes glow and palpitate with the tints of Titian , or coalesce in masses of harmony and undulate with graces superior to those of Correggio ; who , in his turn , once reached the highest summit of invention , when he ...
... portraits sometimes glow and palpitate with the tints of Titian , or coalesce in masses of harmony and undulate with graces superior to those of Correggio ; who , in his turn , once reached the highest summit of invention , when he ...
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Page 48 - Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers
Page 391 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 94 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 171 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not with my...
Page 172 - As for me, I am no more yours, nor you mine ; death hath cut us asunder, and God hath divided me from the world, and you from me. Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who loved you in his happiest estate.
Page 255 - Not many ; some few, as thus : — To see the sun to bed. and to arise. Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes, Bursting the lazy bands of sleep that bound him. With all his fires and travelling glories round him.
Page 172 - I cannot write much; God knows how hardly I steal this time when all sleep; and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world. Beg my dead body, which living was denied you, and either lay it in Sherbourne, or Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more; time and death call me away.
Page 172 - When you have travelled and wearied yourself, with all sorts of worldly cogitations, you shall sit down by sorrow in the end. Teach your son also to serve and fear God whilst he is young, that the fear of God may grow up in him ; then will God be an husband to you, and a father to him ; a husband and a father that can never be taken from you.
Page 172 - I desired it: for know it (my dear wife) your child is the child of a true man, who, in his own respect, despiseth death, and his mis-shapen and ugly forms.
Page 17 - ... advanced towards it - It retired. He came to the foot of the stairs, and after a moment's deliberation ascended. He went slowly up, the flame retiring before him, till he came to a wide gallery The flame proceeded along it, and he followed in silent horror, treading lightly, for the echoes of his footsteps startled him. It led him to the foot of another staircase, and...