The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Том 14 |
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But the most remarkable deficiency in their knowledge relates to their almost utter
ignorance of the nature and character of fossil organic remains . It would be
unreasonable , indeed , to expect to meet with a Buckland , or a Cuvier , at a
period ...
But the most remarkable deficiency in their knowledge relates to their almost utter
ignorance of the nature and character of fossil organic remains . It would be
unreasonable , indeed , to expect to meet with a Buckland , or a Cuvier , at a
period ...
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... suspicions we before expressed , respecting the any thing but sober and
sedate character of the coffee - houses of those days . In a letter from the same
person , we meet with an interesting account , which , as it relates to so
distinguished a ...
... suspicions we before expressed , respecting the any thing but sober and
sedate character of the coffee - houses of those days . In a letter from the same
person , we meet with an interesting account , which , as it relates to so
distinguished a ...
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252 , ) relates , that Johannes Teutonicus , canon of Halbersted , in Germany , a
great proficient in the art of magic , was , on a christmas day , “ transported by the
Diuell in the shape of a blacke horse , and seene and heard to say masse the ...
252 , ) relates , that Johannes Teutonicus , canon of Halbersted , in Germany , a
great proficient in the art of magic , was , on a christmas day , “ transported by the
Diuell in the shape of a blacke horse , and seene and heard to say masse the ...
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But neither the discourse with which he prefaces it , nor the tale which he relates ,
is therefore the less illustrative of the characteristic taste and intellectual history of
his time . The latter relates , in the heroic stanza of seven lines , in which the ...
But neither the discourse with which he prefaces it , nor the tale which he relates ,
is therefore the less illustrative of the characteristic taste and intellectual history of
his time . The latter relates , in the heroic stanza of seven lines , in which the ...
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about not treating wives as “ thralls ; ” for that “ Love will not be constrain ' d by
masterie ; " and it relates the history of one Arviragus , ( a husband who carries
this principle and that of the punctilious obligation of a promise to a somewhat ...
about not treating wives as “ thralls ; ” for that “ Love will not be constrain ' d by
masterie ; " and it relates the history of one Arviragus , ( a husband who carries
this principle and that of the punctilious obligation of a promise to a somewhat ...
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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.
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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.