The Literary Magnet of the Belles Lettres, Science, and the Fine Arts, Volume 1Tobias Merton W.C. Wright., 1824 |
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... performed : but , in order to prove our undertaking is intended to be carried into effect , we are willing to be judged by the first numbers of the forthcoming volume , in which every improvement that the work is sus- ceptible of ...
... performed : but , in order to prove our undertaking is intended to be carried into effect , we are willing to be judged by the first numbers of the forthcoming volume , in which every improvement that the work is sus- ceptible of ...
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... Heir of Sky , custom performed by , 83 Henry IV . of France , 444 Historical Fables , 111 Questions to Hume and Smollet's History of England , Review of , 253 Honesty , 116 Hope and Beauty , 119 Horace's XXII ode imitated , INDEX .
... Heir of Sky , custom performed by , 83 Henry IV . of France , 444 Historical Fables , 111 Questions to Hume and Smollet's History of England , Review of , 253 Honesty , 116 Hope and Beauty , 119 Horace's XXII ode imitated , INDEX .
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... performed with such force of genius , humour , wit , and learning , that I fared like a distressed prince , who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid - I was undone by my auxiliary . " In the Spectator , Addison appeared to still ...
... performed with such force of genius , humour , wit , and learning , that I fared like a distressed prince , who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid - I was undone by my auxiliary . " In the Spectator , Addison appeared to still ...
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... perform such memorable acts of heroism and devotion . While the knights templars , marching under the banner of the cross , carried war and de- vastation into the east : the troubadours of Provence , those wandering minstrels , the very ...
... perform such memorable acts of heroism and devotion . While the knights templars , marching under the banner of the cross , carried war and de- vastation into the east : the troubadours of Provence , those wandering minstrels , the very ...
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... perform their respective parts in the great drama ; yet where have they ever differed from their counterparts at remoter ages of the world ? Did not Berenice display the same heroic fortitude as Arria , though on a different occasion ...
... perform their respective parts in the great drama ; yet where have they ever differed from their counterparts at remoter ages of the world ? Did not Berenice display the same heroic fortitude as Arria , though on a different occasion ...
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Page 28 - The glorious company of the Apostles, The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, The noble army of Martyrs praise thee.
Page 363 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Page 73 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Page 100 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Page 250 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 31 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 28 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Page 8 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 358 - For, in the flaxen lilies' shade It like a bank of lilies laid. Upon the roses it would feed, Until its lips e'en seem'd to bleed; And then to me 'twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold.
Page 405 - And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae...