A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 47
Page 9
... character of the late proprietors , and to pay some tribute of veneration to their ardor for literature , to that generous and exalted curiosity which they gratified with incessant searches and immense expence , and to which they ...
... character of the late proprietors , and to pay some tribute of veneration to their ardor for literature , to that generous and exalted curiosity which they gratified with incessant searches and immense expence , and to which they ...
Page 17
... character , and without points , or any horns or flourishes on the tops of the letters , on 40 brown African skins of different sizes , some containing more columns than others , and having a space of about four lines left between every ...
... character , and without points , or any horns or flourishes on the tops of the letters , on 40 brown African skins of different sizes , some containing more columns than others , and having a space of about four lines left between every ...
Page 18
... with the pictures of the Evangelists painted on gold crowns , and their names written on the margins in Arabic characters . Two other copies of the Greek gospels , written in 18 Account of the Harleian Manuscripts ..
... with the pictures of the Evangelists painted on gold crowns , and their names written on the margins in Arabic characters . Two other copies of the Greek gospels , written in 18 Account of the Harleian Manuscripts ..
Page 19
... characters . A transcript of the Latin gospels , with their usual accom- paniments ; of the same age with the last MS . written in letters of gold , but of à small alphabet ; and remarkable for the singular manner in which the genealogy ...
... characters . A transcript of the Latin gospels , with their usual accom- paniments ; of the same age with the last MS . written in letters of gold , but of à small alphabet ; and remarkable for the singular manner in which the genealogy ...
Page 20
... the be- ginning of the 11th century , and in the Anglo - Normanic character . In this MS . the genealogy of our Saviour is also detached from the other part of St. Matthew's gospel ; 26 Account of the Harleian Manuscripts .
... the be- ginning of the 11th century , and in the Anglo - Normanic character . In this MS . the genealogy of our Saviour is also detached from the other part of St. Matthew's gospel ; 26 Account of the Harleian Manuscripts .
Contents
1 | |
8 | |
15 | |
19 | |
35 | |
38 | |
39 | |
46 | |
240 | |
242 | |
244 | |
245 | |
249 | |
253 | |
256 | |
263 | |
47 | |
55 | |
58 | |
64 | |
66 | |
68 | |
70 | |
80 | |
82 | |
87 | |
88 | |
89 | |
93 | |
94 | |
97 | |
98 | |
102 | |
104 | |
106 | |
107 | |
110 | |
112 | |
113 | |
115 | |
116 | |
120 | |
124 | |
126 | |
131 | |
134 | |
137 | |
140 | |
142 | |
143 | |
146 | |
151 | |
157 | |
164 | |
170 | |
182 | |
188 | |
199 | |
212 | |
223 | |
224 | |
237 | |
238 | |
239 | |
266 | |
269 | |
273 | |
279 | |
281 | |
282 | |
291 | |
302 | |
308 | |
320 | |
323 | |
328 | |
329 | |
333 | |
338 | |
341 | |
345 | |
347 | |
351 | |
356 | |
357 | |
359 | |
360 | |
362 | |
363 | |
366 | |
367 | |
368 | |
373 | |
374 | |
378 | |
382 | |
391 | |
406 | |
414 | |
423 | |
434 | |
443 | |
445 | |
457 | |
468 | |
476 | |
487 | |
494 | |
500 | |
519 | |
521 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
12th century Æneid amongst ancient animals Antonio's Revenge appears beautiful Bible Bishop bones called century church Cicero copy Crasis curious defective verbs Dryden earth Eclogue edition English expression father feet French give gospels Greek Hæc hand hath heaven Henry VIII Homer inches instance Johnson Julius Cæsar kind King language Latin learned letters likewise lines Lord loving Magazine manner means mentioned Milton months Mopsus nature never night observed occasion opinion original Ovid particular passage PAUL GEMSEGE Pelias perhaps person Phoenician alphabet Plautus play poem poet Pope præsens printed probably quæ quid quod reader reason remarkable Roman Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew signifies Silius Italicus speaking Statius supposed Syrinx Tempus thing thou thought tion translation URBAN verb verse Virgil whence whole winds word writers written
Popular passages
Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...