The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics, and the Liberal Arts, Volume 2Leigh Hunt |
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... instance with remorse at feeling how they might have talked and acted had they followed their better impulse , are gra- dually worked into the same gall and irritability in proportion as they find their habits too strong to be conquered ...
... instance with remorse at feeling how they might have talked and acted had they followed their better impulse , are gra- dually worked into the same gall and irritability in proportion as they find their habits too strong to be conquered ...
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... instances of an adu- lation , which , if not in so impious a taste as that of Charles the Second's time , is quite as ... instance as his quarrels on the turf and his repeated appearances before Parliament for money , —yet it is well ...
... instances of an adu- lation , which , if not in so impious a taste as that of Charles the Second's time , is quite as ... instance as his quarrels on the turf and his repeated appearances before Parliament for money , —yet it is well ...
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... instance , who is un . derstood to have enjoyed the Prince's confidence longer and closelier than any other , is Mr. Sheridan , -a man , whose name it is almost impossible to write without an exclamation of impatient regret . With what ...
... instance , who is un . derstood to have enjoyed the Prince's confidence longer and closelier than any other , is Mr. Sheridan , -a man , whose name it is almost impossible to write without an exclamation of impatient regret . With what ...
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... instance , we shall become a des- picable people ; and in the second , the day of retribution will only come heavier upon those who have bestridden and galled us in our dumbness . The public actions of the Prince of Wales , since his ...
... instance , we shall become a des- picable people ; and in the second , the day of retribution will only come heavier upon those who have bestridden and galled us in our dumbness . The public actions of the Prince of Wales , since his ...
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... instances of noto- rious immorality in these self - appointed teachers ; and in his pro- visions care was taken to require due attestations of the morals of all candidates for the non - conformist ministry . His Lordship might have ...
... instances of noto- rious immorality in these self - appointed teachers ; and in his pro- visions care was taken to require due attestations of the morals of all candidates for the non - conformist ministry . His Lordship might have ...
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Page 135 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 123 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Page 284 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 140 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 286 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Page 79 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 287 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily.
Page 352 - ... their frantic gall On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce, For I must (nor let it grieve thee Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee. For thy sake, TOBACCO, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise. But, as she, who once hath been A king's consort, is a queen Ever after, nor will bate Any tittle of her state...
Page 48 - Then shakes his powdered coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught But now and then with pressure of his thumb T...
Page 137 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.