The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volumen41811 A drama is appended to each number of v. 1-2 |
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... of Lincoln's - Inn , with a view to the bar . The study of the law , however , soon became irksome to a youth so disposed as we have described the subject of this memoir . In 1737 , his uncle left Lisbon , with an BIOGRAPHY . 13.
... of Lincoln's - Inn , with a view to the bar . The study of the law , however , soon became irksome to a youth so disposed as we have described the subject of this memoir . In 1737 , his uncle left Lisbon , with an BIOGRAPHY . 13.
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... soon after fell sick and died . Before his death , his nephew David had ventured to insinuate to him , that he ought to make him some compensation , in his will , for the fruit- less voyage which he had led him to make to Lisbon . The ...
... soon after fell sick and died . Before his death , his nephew David had ventured to insinuate to him , that he ought to make him some compensation , in his will , for the fruit- less voyage which he had led him to make to Lisbon . The ...
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... in resisting the oppressions of the managers . It would lead us into too great a length for our limits to enter on the particulars of this quarrel , which soon ex- tended itself into a paper war ; but the reader BIOGRAPHY . 15.
... in resisting the oppressions of the managers . It would lead us into too great a length for our limits to enter on the particulars of this quarrel , which soon ex- tended itself into a paper war ; but the reader BIOGRAPHY . 15.
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... soon found that his competition with Mr. Garrick , whose reputation was hourly increasing , whilst his own was on the decline , would soon become ineffectual . His Richard the Third could scarce draw together a decent appearance of ...
... soon found that his competition with Mr. Garrick , whose reputation was hourly increasing , whilst his own was on the decline , would soon become ineffectual . His Richard the Third could scarce draw together a decent appearance of ...
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The folly of marrying a beautiful woman , and the old objection beauty soon fades , have been food for many a hungry philosopher . They do not reflect that our appetites , desires and enjoyments are as transitory as the beauty they ...
The folly of marrying a beautiful woman , and the old objection beauty soon fades , have been food for many a hungry philosopher . They do not reflect that our appetites , desires and enjoyments are as transitory as the beauty they ...
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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.