The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Том 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... English serpents- " I never knew nor heard of above three kinds ; and though one cannot be sure of a negative , I verily believe there are no more . Those are , 1. Natrix torquata , or the snake , so called , because it hath a pale ...
... English serpents- " I never knew nor heard of above three kinds ; and though one cannot be sure of a negative , I verily believe there are no more . Those are , 1. Natrix torquata , or the snake , so called , because it hath a pale ...
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... English Papilios , " reckons their number at about forty , whereas the present number con- sists of about eighty - three . We shall now make a short excursion into the vegetable world . Every body has heard of weeping willows , but few ...
... English Papilios , " reckons their number at about forty , whereas the present number con- sists of about eighty - three . We shall now make a short excursion into the vegetable world . Every body has heard of weeping willows , but few ...
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... English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and three months old as well as most lads twice his age . " It would be unpardonable in these our days , when lions hold tournaments , and elephants , renouncing their allegiance ...
... English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and three months old as well as most lads twice his age . " It would be unpardonable in these our days , when lions hold tournaments , and elephants , renouncing their allegiance ...
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... English , Scotch , and Dutch , who have renounced their religion , few , or none , have died a natural death . " Chapter II . relates to the ceremonies of marriage among the Russians , many of which are curious enough . " The bridegroom ...
... English , Scotch , and Dutch , who have renounced their religion , few , or none , have died a natural death . " Chapter II . relates to the ceremonies of marriage among the Russians , many of which are curious enough . " The bridegroom ...
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... English had more of the former ( I mean their expedition , ) and less of the latter , viz . their corruption . Seldom a wedding passes without some witchcraft , ( if people of quality marry , ) chiefly acted , as it is thought , by nuns ...
... English had more of the former ( I mean their expedition , ) and less of the latter , viz . their corruption . Seldom a wedding passes without some witchcraft , ( if people of quality marry , ) chiefly acted , as it is thought , by nuns ...
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Сторінка 316 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Сторінка 297 - This is mentioned to vindicate Tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes ; happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Сторінка 105 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Сторінка 298 - Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.
Сторінка 288 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Сторінка 304 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Сторінка 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Сторінка 297 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Сторінка 282 - BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN, Compos'd at several times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. HENRY LAWES, Gentleman of the Kings Chappel, and one of His Majesties Private Musick.
Сторінка 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.