The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 99Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1829 - English essays |
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... beautiful traits of that sentiment and feeling , which forms so many fine episodes in the epic of life . Nisus and Euryalus , in the corruption of his heart , he would have deemed two fools only ; and the love of Dido merely an orange ...
... beautiful traits of that sentiment and feeling , which forms so many fine episodes in the epic of life . Nisus and Euryalus , in the corruption of his heart , he would have deemed two fools only ; and the love of Dido merely an orange ...
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... beautiful edifice is stated to be about 30,000l . , and it will bear an ad- vantageous comparison , in point of magnifi- cence , with some modern churches which have cost three times that amount . This may arise , in a great degree ...
... beautiful edifice is stated to be about 30,000l . , and it will bear an ad- vantageous comparison , in point of magnifi- cence , with some modern churches which have cost three times that amount . This may arise , in a great degree ...
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... beautiful Rebecca , must have powerfully interested Rowena . Indeed their individual loveliness seems to have been heightened by their admiration of each other . What a lesson to the jealous rivalries of our fashionable beauties . We ...
... beautiful Rebecca , must have powerfully interested Rowena . Indeed their individual loveliness seems to have been heightened by their admiration of each other . What a lesson to the jealous rivalries of our fashionable beauties . We ...
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... beautiful maho- gany . It has been seen by a number of Hebrew scholars and Jews , and it has been supposed to be the most ancient copy of the five Books of Moses in existence . CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS . The Archimandrite Hyacinth , who has ...
... beautiful maho- gany . It has been seen by a number of Hebrew scholars and Jews , and it has been supposed to be the most ancient copy of the five Books of Moses in existence . CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS . The Archimandrite Hyacinth , who has ...
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... beautiful and fertile kingdom of Benbatooka had declared for their old King , subdued by Radama's troops , when his Majesty's ship Androma- che was off Mejunga , in Bembatooka - bay , with a squadron . The Queen had ordered the English ...
... beautiful and fertile kingdom of Benbatooka had declared for their old King , subdued by Radama's troops , when his Majesty's ship Androma- che was off Mejunga , in Bembatooka - bay , with a squadron . The Queen had ordered the English ...
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Page 401 - And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying...
Page 367 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 110 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 16 - Six Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, at their Anniversary Meetings, on the Award of the Royal and Copley Medals ; preceded by an Address to the Society, delivered in 1800, on the Progress and Prospects of Science.
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Page 111 - Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear ! How cleanly do we feed and lie ! Lord ! what good hours do we keep ! How quietly we sleep ! What peace, what unanimity ! How innocent from the lewd fashion, Is all our business, all our recreation...
Page 403 - tis a base Abandonment of reason to resign Our right of thought — our last and only place Of refuge...
Page 54 - The portraits of Reynolds are equally numerous and excellent, and all who have written of their merits have swelled their eulogiums by comparing them with the simplicity of Titian, the vigour of Rembrandt, and the elegance and delicacy of Vandyke. Certainly, in character and expression, and in manly ease, he has never been surpassed. He is always equal — always natural — graceful — unaffected. His boldness of posture and his singular freedom of colouring are so supported by all the grace of...
Page 57 - Thomson, Richard. An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: to which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English, the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III and Edward I, the original Charter of the forests, and various authentic instruments connected with them: Explanatory...