The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... stage may be rendered subservient to the ámendment of public morals , is admitted on all hands . It must , consequently , be an object of considerable mo- ment , to inquire upon what principles of construction , dramatic compositions ...
... stage may be rendered subservient to the ámendment of public morals , is admitted on all hands . It must , consequently , be an object of considerable mo- ment , to inquire upon what principles of construction , dramatic compositions ...
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... stage but what is natural , and its converse , are by no means invariably true . " To hold as it were the mirror up to nature , " is a rule which should certainly be adhered to as closely as propriety will admit ; but there are many ...
... stage but what is natural , and its converse , are by no means invariably true . " To hold as it were the mirror up to nature , " is a rule which should certainly be adhered to as closely as propriety will admit ; but there are many ...
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... stage : -that he managed in Dublin , and af- terwards was at Drury Lane , and Covent - Garden , —are facts every body have in their possession . The incident which drove him from Dublin , on a scrupulosity for punctilio , in not ...
... stage : -that he managed in Dublin , and af- terwards was at Drury Lane , and Covent - Garden , —are facts every body have in their possession . The incident which drove him from Dublin , on a scrupulosity for punctilio , in not ...
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... stage , and every other view of gain in Great Britain , and went with his wife and four children to France . They lived above eighteen months at Blois , If labour can be estimated by its effects , he must have had skill in forming the ...
... stage , and every other view of gain in Great Britain , and went with his wife and four children to France . They lived above eighteen months at Blois , If labour can be estimated by its effects , he must have had skill in forming the ...
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... stage . - His pen- sion he had about twenty years - the nominal value of it was but 2001. a year - after the deductions of land - tax and the sixpenny duty , but 1607. remained ! —The rest of his supply came from the miscellaneous aids ...
... stage . - His pen- sion he had about twenty years - the nominal value of it was but 2001. a year - after the deductions of land - tax and the sixpenny duty , but 1607. remained ! —The rest of his supply came from the miscellaneous aids ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.