The Retrospective Review, Volume 11Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1825 - Books |
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... fair , he met with a cousin and another friend , both " professors , " and they agreed to drink together . These " fessors , " however , were not so easily satisfied as their compa- nion ; " they began to drink healths , and called for ...
... fair , he met with a cousin and another friend , both " professors , " and they agreed to drink together . These " fessors , " however , were not so easily satisfied as their compa- nion ; " they began to drink healths , and called for ...
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... fair sexes . The fourth argument which Philander brings forward in favour of the gout is , that " gouty persons are most free from the head - ache . " In proving this proposition , he displays a large store of physiological learning ...
... fair sexes . The fourth argument which Philander brings forward in favour of the gout is , that " gouty persons are most free from the head - ache . " In proving this proposition , he displays a large store of physiological learning ...
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... fair young lusty maid of Piedmont , which a great lord would have kept , and preserved for himself , to keep him company in the night , for fear of the greedy wolf . The captain and ensign were taken alive , but soon after were hanged ...
... fair young lusty maid of Piedmont , which a great lord would have kept , and preserved for himself , to keep him company in the night , for fear of the greedy wolf . The captain and ensign were taken alive , but soon after were hanged ...
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... Fair Family ; the latter , Ellyllon , Elves , or Goblins , The Tylwyth Têg are a mild and diminutive race , leading a life completely pastoral , and befriending fond and youthful lovers , pretty dairymaids , and hospitable and ...
... Fair Family ; the latter , Ellyllon , Elves , or Goblins , The Tylwyth Têg are a mild and diminutive race , leading a life completely pastoral , and befriending fond and youthful lovers , pretty dairymaids , and hospitable and ...
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... fair complexioned , with long hair , particularly the females , who wore it flowing over their shoulders . They had horses and hounds adapted to their size . They neither ate fish , nor flesh ; but lived , for the most part , on milk ...
... fair complexioned , with long hair , particularly the females , who wore it flowing over their shoulders . They had horses and hounds adapted to their size . They neither ate fish , nor flesh ; but lived , for the most part , on milk ...
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Page 210 - Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 212 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. "All they shall speak and say unto thee, 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?' "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 87 - But oh ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to...
Page 208 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; 1 will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 208 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 214 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Page 206 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 216 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion...
Page 185 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time as well as we.
Page 211 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.