The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volume 1J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... Remarks on the poems of Ossian 14. On indolence · • • 15. Of education - A classical contrasted with a fashionable education 16. Of spring - Effects of that season on some minds 17. Description of a shopkeeper virtuoso in a letter from ...
... Remarks on the poems of Ossian 14. On indolence · • • 15. Of education - A classical contrasted with a fashionable education 16. Of spring - Effects of that season on some minds 17. Description of a shopkeeper virtuoso in a letter from ...
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... remark on all modern ones , that there was no force of thought , nor beauty of composition , to be found in them . An elderly gentleman , who said he had a guess at the author , prognosticated that the paper would be used as the vehicle ...
... remark on all modern ones , that there was no force of thought , nor beauty of composition , to be found in them . An elderly gentleman , who said he had a guess at the author , prognosticated that the paper would be used as the vehicle ...
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... a fine gentleman may find his account in an occasional practice of virtue , without derogating from the dig- VOL . I. C nity of that character which it costs him so much 3 . 13 THE MIRROR . Remarks on the poems of Ossian • Cullen.
... a fine gentleman may find his account in an occasional practice of virtue , without derogating from the dig- VOL . I. C nity of that character which it costs him so much 3 . 13 THE MIRROR . Remarks on the poems of Ossian • Cullen.
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... , the curtain drew up , and the play began . It is not my design , sir , to trouble you with any remarks on the performance ; the purpose of this E 3 9 . 41 THE MIRROR . Description of a tour through the High- lands, by a London family.
... , the curtain drew up , and the play began . It is not my design , sir , to trouble you with any remarks on the performance ; the purpose of this E 3 9 . 41 THE MIRROR . Description of a tour through the High- lands, by a London family.
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A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780. any remarks on the performance ; the purpose of this letter is to request of you to take some notice of a species of indecorum , that appeared altogether new to me ...
A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780. any remarks on the performance ; the purpose of this letter is to request of you to take some notice of a species of indecorum , that appeared altogether new to me ...
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Page 251 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 276 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 123 - Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 193 - I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have, And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Page 122 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Page 68 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 150 - Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Page 122 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Page 68 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 229 - Father of mercies," said he, " forgive these tears; assist thy servant to lift up his soul to thee; to lift to thee the souls of thy people. My friends, it is good so to do, at all seasons it is good ; but in the days of our distress, what a privilege it is ! Well saith the sacred book, ' Trust in the Lord ; at all times trust in the Lord.