The Oxford Entertaining Miscellany, Or, Weekly Magazine: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors, Original Communications, &c., &c, Volume 1F. Trash, 1824 |
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... admiration of the present , and will continue to be the theme of future ages . Madame Catalani owed more to birth than to fortune ; and she was therefore destined to take the veil , like other females , similarly circumstanced . When ...
... admiration of the present , and will continue to be the theme of future ages . Madame Catalani owed more to birth than to fortune ; and she was therefore destined to take the veil , like other females , similarly circumstanced . When ...
Pagina 7
... admiration un- regret , which the death of LORD BYRON has oocasioned . Born to rank and affluence , and possessing a genius of the highest order , his Lordship was , by domestic cir- cumstances , driven from his home and family , and ...
... admiration un- regret , which the death of LORD BYRON has oocasioned . Born to rank and affluence , and possessing a genius of the highest order , his Lordship was , by domestic cir- cumstances , driven from his home and family , and ...
Pagina 28
... admiration of his modesty and talents . " Were I so tall to reach the pole , Or mete the ocean with a span , must be measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man . ' I " Dr. Goldsmith . - The follow- ing announcement of the ...
... admiration of his modesty and talents . " Were I so tall to reach the pole , Or mete the ocean with a span , must be measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man . ' I " Dr. Goldsmith . - The follow- ing announcement of the ...
Pagina 34
... admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon dis- tinguished him , if not as an extra- ordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the people of his age , who began ...
... admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon dis- tinguished him , if not as an extra- ordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the people of his age , who began ...
Pagina 35
... admirable character of Falstaff , in the Two Parts of rally a just value and esteem for Henry the Fourth , that she com- him . His exceeding candour and manded him to continue it for one good - nature must certainly have play more , and ...
... admirable character of Falstaff , in the Two Parts of rally a just value and esteem for Henry the Fourth , that she com- him . His exceeding candour and manded him to continue it for one good - nature must certainly have play more , and ...
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Pagina 36 - 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...
Pagina 21 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Pagina 82 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 22 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae!
Pagina 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Pagina 27 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 80 - Doom'd, as I am, in solitude to waste The present moments, and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen ! Still, still, I mourn, with each returning day, Him* snatch'd by fate in early youth away. And her— thro...
Pagina 22 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Pagina 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks, — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Pagina 150 - I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our...