The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Том 159Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1836 |
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... mentioned that Sheridan had lately said in conversation , that he detested Pope as a poet , that Homer ought to have been hung , that Virgil was delightful , and that he adored Dryden . He must surely have been drunk ! Pope and Virgil ...
... mentioned that Sheridan had lately said in conversation , that he detested Pope as a poet , that Homer ought to have been hung , that Virgil was delightful , and that he adored Dryden . He must surely have been drunk ! Pope and Virgil ...
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... mentioned ; a long series of Rolls , or Pells , of receipts at the Exchequer ; a similar series of Rolls , or Pells , of pay- ments ; several old Royal Household books ; a series of Liberate Rolls ; Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews ...
... mentioned ; a long series of Rolls , or Pells , of receipts at the Exchequer ; a similar series of Rolls , or Pells , of pay- ments ; several old Royal Household books ; a series of Liberate Rolls ; Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews ...
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... mentioned in it , he is a mere creation of Mr. Devon's fancy . So may we go from entry to entry and without any better success . They are not ' household payments , ' but pensions or other gratuities , and wherever they are stated at ...
... mentioned in it , he is a mere creation of Mr. Devon's fancy . So may we go from entry to entry and without any better success . They are not ' household payments , ' but pensions or other gratuities , and wherever they are stated at ...
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... mentioned in it . Valets and attendants on the King , amongst others , Geoffrey Chaucer and Philippa Chaucer , with ... mention of their names and places of residence , p . 111. ' There is no such mention whatever . In the same page ...
... mentioned in it . Valets and attendants on the King , amongst others , Geoffrey Chaucer and Philippa Chaucer , with ... mention of their names and places of residence , p . 111. ' There is no such mention whatever . In the same page ...
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... mentioned in this Roll , were apparently those allowed from ancient time , ' and in consequence of the alteration in the value of money had become insuffi- cient . Instances occur of the increase of the fees of many of the officers of ...
... mentioned in this Roll , were apparently those allowed from ancient time , ' and in consequence of the alteration in the value of money had become insuffi- cient . Instances occur of the increase of the fees of many of the officers of ...
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Сторінка 216 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.
Сторінка 20 - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.
Сторінка 338 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Сторінка 482 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Сторінка 116 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Сторінка 230 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
Сторінка 230 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Сторінка 230 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Сторінка 250 - Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures...
Сторінка 251 - Mr. Watt was an extraordinary and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.