The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volumen41811 A drama is appended to each number of v. 1-2 |
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... interest of " the sock and buskin . " Although I highly approve of your Mirror , I regard it as sus- " ceptible of improvement ; and venture to suggest a small altera- ❝tion , which I believe will gratify the majority of your readers ...
... interest of " the sock and buskin . " Although I highly approve of your Mirror , I regard it as sus- " ceptible of improvement ; and venture to suggest a small altera- ❝tion , which I believe will gratify the majority of your readers ...
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... interest of this money , David prudently placed himself under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Colson , an emi- nent mathematician at Rochester . Though we do not find that his progress in the mathematics was very extensive , yet we may well ...
... interest of this money , David prudently placed himself under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Colson , an emi- nent mathematician at Rochester . Though we do not find that his progress in the mathematics was very extensive , yet we may well ...
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... interest , and to extort more tears than a volume of the smooth , measured verbiage , the canting recitative , of which other tragedies are composed . As persons of extreme sensibility are extravagant in their friendships and affections ...
... interest , and to extort more tears than a volume of the smooth , measured verbiage , the canting recitative , of which other tragedies are composed . As persons of extreme sensibility are extravagant in their friendships and affections ...
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... interests of society demanded that so gross an offender should meet with punishment , and that no concessions ought to have been allowed to deprecate that stroke which the law would have inflicted on so heinous a crime . From this time ...
... interests of society demanded that so gross an offender should meet with punishment , and that no concessions ought to have been allowed to deprecate that stroke which the law would have inflicted on so heinous a crime . From this time ...
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... interest in the theatre ; but continued to act during the re- mainder of that season . The last night of his performance was , for the Theatrical Fund , on the 10th day of June in that year ; when he represented the character of Don ...
... interest in the theatre ; but continued to act during the re- mainder of that season . The last night of his performance was , for the Theatrical Fund , on the 10th day of June in that year ; when he represented the character of Don ...
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Página 117 - O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Página 47 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 389 - Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Página 391 - Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread ; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May j And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven?
Página 55 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Página 118 - Stain my man's cheeks ! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep.
Página 389 - There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. Ham. Why, right; you are in the right ; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and desire, shall point you; — For every man...
Página 388 - Who calls me villain ? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face ? Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ? Ha!
Página 59 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 52 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.