The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Том 14Proprietors., 1802 |
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... opinion long combated , but at length generally admitted . On the 10th of Mar. in the present Year , he was married at St. Bennet's , Cambridge , to Miss SARAH WATSON FINCH , 2nd Daughter of Mr. Joseph Finch of Cambridge , Merchant ...
... opinion long combated , but at length generally admitted . On the 10th of Mar. in the present Year , he was married at St. Bennet's , Cambridge , to Miss SARAH WATSON FINCH , 2nd Daughter of Mr. Joseph Finch of Cambridge , Merchant ...
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... opinions of mankind on the most important subjects , omits examining with diligence and candour the feelings , limits , and bias of his own mind , estimating his means of information , and earnestly seeking to discover with a view of ...
... opinions of mankind on the most important subjects , omits examining with diligence and candour the feelings , limits , and bias of his own mind , estimating his means of information , and earnestly seeking to discover with a view of ...
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... opinion still , that if the serious incidents of Beg- gar my Neighbour had not been so incongruously intermixed with the comic business , the piece would have been more successful , The German story did not at all agree with the ...
... opinion still , that if the serious incidents of Beg- gar my Neighbour had not been so incongruously intermixed with the comic business , the piece would have been more successful , The German story did not at all agree with the ...
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... opinion . He has great natural requisites for the country boys , but wants much cultivation . Sheridan performs the old men , and he is reputed a good actor , but he certainly takes indecent liberties ; for instance , in Old Dow- las ...
... opinion . He has great natural requisites for the country boys , but wants much cultivation . Sheridan performs the old men , and he is reputed a good actor , but he certainly takes indecent liberties ; for instance , in Old Dow- las ...
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... opinion , the powers of pleasing and instructing at the same time : a rare coalition ! The lat- ter particularly paints life in accurate colours , and from the various actions and opinions of the characters , deduces morals the most ...
... opinion , the powers of pleasing and instructing at the same time : a rare coalition ! The lat- ter particularly paints life in accurate colours , and from the various actions and opinions of the characters , deduces morals the most ...
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Страница 302 - to represent all the moral virtues, assigning to every virtue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same, in whose actions and feats of arms and chivalry the operations of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to be expressed, and the vices and unruly appetites that oppose themselves against the same, to be beaten down and overcome.
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