The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 221Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1866 - English essays |
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Page 454 - The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 821 - 'Tis education forms the common mind' Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined' Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar: Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave : Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave.
Page 795 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspere spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
Page 305 - 'Tis done—but yesterday a king ! And arm'd with kings to strive— And now thou art a nameless thing : So abject—yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our earth with hostile bones,— And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Page 21 - And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off" the face of the ground. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark,
Page 700 - And parted thus they rest, who played Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they prayed Around one parent knee : They that with smiles lit up the hall, And cheered with song the hearth !— Alas, for love ! if thou wert all, And naught beyond, 0
Page 787 - such as thou ; but becomes beef, a fiery French gallant, when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him. Mynheer Calf, too, becomes Monsieur de Veau in like manner: he is Saxon when he requires tendance, and takes a Norman name when he becomes matter of enjoyment." Sir Walter might have added the
Page 793 - Some, to the wars, to try their fortune there ; Some, to discover islands far away ; Some, to the studious universities." Like several other manor houses built in this reign, Stayley Hall is somewhat in the shape of
Page 607 - the earth. And I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 780 - are represented as tending Cedric's swine in a wood, where " hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed, widebranched oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were