The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 253Bradbury, Evans, 1882 - English periodicals |
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... known . The pages of romance are uneventful in comparison with the records of Garibaldi's life . Born in 1807 at Nice , where his father owned or navigated a small coasting vessel , he was destined by his pious mother for the priesthood ...
... known . The pages of romance are uneventful in comparison with the records of Garibaldi's life . Born in 1807 at Nice , where his father owned or navigated a small coasting vessel , he was destined by his pious mother for the priesthood ...
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... known . Mazzini naturally took the lead in directing the affairs of the new Roman Republic , by no means so long - lived as its promoters wished , and Garibaldi as naturally took the lead in preparing to defend the city against the ...
... known . Mazzini naturally took the lead in directing the affairs of the new Roman Republic , by no means so long - lived as its promoters wished , and Garibaldi as naturally took the lead in preparing to defend the city against the ...
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... known , even in recent science , respecting the habitats of animals and plants . To know that lions occur in Africa , and tigers in India ; to learn that the giraffe and the hippopotamus are tenants of Ethiopia , and that rhinoceroses ...
... known , even in recent science , respecting the habitats of animals and plants . To know that lions occur in Africa , and tigers in India ; to learn that the giraffe and the hippopotamus are tenants of Ethiopia , and that rhinoceroses ...
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... known in the Old World . " " Thus Buffon , " says Lyell , " caught sight at once of a general law in the geographical distribution of organic beings , namely , the limitation of groups of distinct species to regions separated from the ...
... known in the Old World . " " Thus Buffon , " says Lyell , " caught sight at once of a general law in the geographical distribution of organic beings , namely , the limitation of groups of distinct species to regions separated from the ...
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... known as the " Indian " region , pos- sesses boundaries of highly interesting nature . Comprising Asia south of the Palearctic region , it includes India , the eastern peninsula , and the Malay archipelago as far as Borneo , Java , and ...
... known as the " Indian " region , pos- sesses boundaries of highly interesting nature . Comprising Asia south of the Palearctic region , it includes India , the eastern peninsula , and the Malay archipelago as far as Borneo , Java , and ...
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Page 307 - ART thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin ; The bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing...
Page 571 - That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.
Page 581 - All things had put their evil nature off: I cannot tell my joy, when o'er a lake Upon a drooping bough with nightshade twined, I saw two azure halcyons clinging downward And thinning one bright bunch of amber berries...
Page 676 - ACT V. SCENE I.— Mantua. A Street. Enter ROMEO. Rom. If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand : My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Page 672 - As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.
Page 589 - ... heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 215 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 595 - ... in their choice of words. The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you. His worship is sympathetic ; he has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present. No imitation or playing of these things would content him ; he loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain, of stone and wood and iron.
Page 592 - I could not possibly give you one of the "arguments " you cruelly hint at, on which any doctrine of mine stands ; for I do not know what arguments are in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think ; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of mortal men.
Page 592 - So that, in the present droll posture of my affairs, when I see myself suddenly raised into the importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. "I certainly shall do no such thing. I shall read what you and other good men write, as I have always done, — glad when you speak my thoughts, and skipping the page that has nothing for me. I shall go on, just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling...