The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 91, Part 1Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1821 - English essays |
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... appears so very like in expression and conception to the epitaphs alluded to above : By mortal runners ne'er was he surpass'd , Death only prov'd his overmatch at last . Rest , Tommy , here ! till with recruited breath , Thou ris'st to ...
... appears so very like in expression and conception to the epitaphs alluded to above : By mortal runners ne'er was he surpass'd , Death only prov'd his overmatch at last . Rest , Tommy , here ! till with recruited breath , Thou ris'st to ...
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... appears to have been copied by him from the MSS . ( preserved in the British Museum ) of Captain Symonds , who visited this town in 1644 . The writer of this article has lately recovered several fragments of this Cross , through the ...
... appears to have been copied by him from the MSS . ( preserved in the British Museum ) of Captain Symonds , who visited this town in 1644 . The writer of this article has lately recovered several fragments of this Cross , through the ...
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... appears to have been the work of Edward Jefferye , about the year 1668. Its contents . may be ascertained by the following verbose title - page , & c . " Speculum Mundi : or , An Epittomy and Abridgement of ye histories of sev❜ral of ...
... appears to have been the work of Edward Jefferye , about the year 1668. Its contents . may be ascertained by the following verbose title - page , & c . " Speculum Mundi : or , An Epittomy and Abridgement of ye histories of sev❜ral of ...
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... appears stupid and dull as the clods which his industry attempts to fertilize and animate , and his sordid soul revolves in a narrow circle of gross enjoy- ments , whilst the other enjoys his faculties in far brighter vigour , - thinks ...
... appears stupid and dull as the clods which his industry attempts to fertilize and animate , and his sordid soul revolves in a narrow circle of gross enjoy- ments , whilst the other enjoys his faculties in far brighter vigour , - thinks ...
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... appears that the branch ought to be cut close to the body of the tree , and some composition ap- plied to assist Nature in curing the wound . It seems too , that excessive pruning injures the quality of the timber , and that one - third ...
... appears that the branch ought to be cut close to the body of the tree , and some composition ap- plied to assist Nature in curing the wound . It seems too , that excessive pruning injures the quality of the timber , and that one - third ...
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Page 106 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 352 - 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 30 - From Heaven my strains begin: from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams...
Page 8 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 66 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.
Page 136 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 397 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Page 8 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 74 - I have recently received so many testimonies from all parts of my kingdom ; and which, whilst it is most grateful to the strongest feelings of my heart, I shall ever consider as the best and surest safeguard of my throne.
Page 398 - ... inasmuch as the defendant was in the exercise of a legal right, and not answerable for the consequences ; and so the poor gentleman was doubly nonsuited, for he lost not only his suit of clothes, but his suit at law.