MONTHLY
MIRR R:

REFLECTING
MEN AND MANNERS;
WITII STRICTURES ON THEIR EPITOME,

The Stage.

Let them look in the Mirror, which I hold up to them, a Mirror which does not flatter, and see themselves.

Dr. Johnson on Coriolanus.

VOL. VII.

MONTHLY MIRROR,

FOR

JANUARY, 1810.

Embellished with

A PORTRAIT OF LORD VALENTIA, ENGRAVED BY FREEMAN,

FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING.

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CONTENTS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

Horace in London, Book II.

Preface ..............

Ode XI. .......................... 44

Memoirs of Lord Valentia ... 5

, Book I.

Scrapiana .....

Ode XXXIV. .....

Hoaxing ................................

Book .

Sketch of Dresden and its En-

Ode XIX. .............

The Rival Roses..................

Historians, No. III. ............. 11

On her asking me why I loved

Invention ...............................

her ...........

Ausonianus on the Structure

Arithmetic ..........................

of the Sonnet ..................

The Loves of the Plants ....... 50

The Pedigree of Milton .........

Nautical Quibble ................. 5

Miss Edgeworth ...................
Notes on Athenæus ................

MEMORAN DA DRAMATICA

Endymion the Exile ...........,

Covent Garden Theatre ...... 52

Lyceum ............................

... 61

Theatrical Chit Chat ............. 66

REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

King's Theatre .....................

Miss Porter's Don Sebastian, or Oratorio ..............................

the House of Braganza .... 29 Olympic Pavilion .................

Fernandez Aventuras de Gil

Blas de Santillana ...........

PROVINCIAL DRAMA, &c.

Sunderland

Shrewsbury

BRITISH STAGE.

Croydon ....

Worthing

The Theatres .......................

Newcastle
Anecdote of M. Larive .........

North Shields ...

Dangle in his Senses ................

Description of Covent-Garden

On the Alterations of Shak-

Theatre

speare ..............

Literary Intelligence ............

Illustrations ........................ 42 !l Corre

Correspondence

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