A Complete List of the Plates and Wood-cuts in Gentleman's Magazine: From the Commencement in the Year 1731 to 1818 Inclusive and an Alphabetical Index Thereto, Volume 5

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John Nichols and Son, 1821 - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 225 pages
 

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Page viii - Oct. 30th, 1804, in his 60th year. Shall he whose tears for suffering virtue flow'd, Whose heart with every social feeling glow'd, To friendless want his little all who gave, Sleep undistinguish'd in the oblivious grave? Though virtuous fame all monuments surpass, The breathing sculpture, and recording brass; Afflicted Friendship, to thy memory just, Bids this fair tablet shade thy honour'd dust, And lets a distant age, more grateful know That Modest Worth and AYSCOUGH rest below. T. MAURICE. Erected...
Page 56 - WILLIAM), chief justice of the king's bench in the reign of Henry IV. was descended of a noble family, originally from Normandy, and born at Gawthorp in Yorkshire, about 1350. Being designed for the law, he became a student either at...
Page 87 - Captains" — William Bayne, William Blair, and Lord Robert Manners, who fell in 1 782 mortally wounded in naval engagements in the West Indies, under Admiral Rodney.
Page 63 - Shelley, who was the last English Grand Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, serving to illustrate the annexed Engraving of two curious inedited Medallions in his Majesty's Collection.

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