 | 1767 - 352 pages
...ourfelves explain, Which not to know all knowledge is but vain. As CRITIC and CENSOR-GENERAL, I fhall take the liberty to animadvert on every thing, that...or ridiculous ; always endeavouring " to hold, as 'twere, the mirrour " up to Nature, to fhew Virtue her own feature, " Scorn her own image, and the... | |
 | 1786 - 782 pages
...rfelvf3e::plain4 Which not to know all knowledge is but vain. As Critic and Cenfor General, I (halt take the liberty to animadvert on every thing that...ridiculous ; always endeavouring ' to hold, as it were, the mirrour up to Nature, to (hew Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and the veiy Age and body... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this, over-done, or come tardy... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...of those around him, and of the age in which he lives ; and as I propose, in the following papers, " to hold, as it were, the MIRROR up to Nature, " to shew Virtue her own features, Vice her own " image, and the very age and body of the Time " his form and pressure," my... | |
 | 1803 - 234 pages
...to man. Th' important knowledge of ourselves explain, Which not to know all knowledge is but vain." As Critic and Censor-General, I shall take the liberty...ridiculous ; always endeavouring " to hold, as it were, the mirrourup to Nature, to shew Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body... | |
 | 1804 - 416 pages
...purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, wa^, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirrour up to nature ; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this, over-done, or come tardy... | |
 | 1803 - 410 pages
...purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mil rour up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this, over-done, or come tardy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 298 pages
...to man. Th' important knowledge of ourselves explain, Which not to know all knowledge is but vain. As Critic and Censor-General, I shall take the liberty...Nature, to shew " Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and " the very age and body of the Time his form and " pressure." T. N° 2. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY... | |
 | Juvenal - 1807 - 390 pages
...his ex?, pressions are derived from the honesty and integrity of his own mind: his great aim was—" to hold, as it " were, the mirror up to nature; to shew Virtue her " own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age " and body of the time his form and pressure i *>',V-rHe meant not, therefore,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 354 pages
...of those around him, and of the age in which he lives ; and as I propose in the following papers, " to hold, as it were the MIRROR up to Nature, " to shew Virtue her own features, Vice her own *' image, and the very age and body of the Time " his form and pressure," my... | |
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... twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. 
