The Retrospective Review, 1–2. köideJ. R. Smith, 1853 Consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old books. |
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... whole plot of the play from contemporary events , or contemporary manners , making it in fact a newspaper or a satire ; for the idea of bringing con- temporary history on the stage does not belong exclusively to modern times . Comedy ...
... whole plot of the play from contemporary events , or contemporary manners , making it in fact a newspaper or a satire ; for the idea of bringing con- temporary history on the stage does not belong exclusively to modern times . Comedy ...
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... whole evidence can suggest only one conclusion : it was used as an aphrodisiac ; and so powerful is this property , that Jonstonus , in his Dendrographia , observes , that it is wholesome to walk in groves of pine trees , which ...
... whole evidence can suggest only one conclusion : it was used as an aphrodisiac ; and so powerful is this property , that Jonstonus , in his Dendrographia , observes , that it is wholesome to walk in groves of pine trees , which ...
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... whole of the argument and investigation is carried out , " were long ago , my lord , introduced into the medical art , by ostentatious men , who were fonder of showing their parts than promoting the real good of their profession . But ...
... whole of the argument and investigation is carried out , " were long ago , my lord , introduced into the medical art , by ostentatious men , who were fonder of showing their parts than promoting the real good of their profession . But ...
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... whole assembly rejoiced at this opening of the scene , and each dis- puted the honour of following the common enemy . The hardened savage now produced an old razor , stained with the blood of his ancestors ; with this he released from ...
... whole assembly rejoiced at this opening of the scene , and each dis- puted the honour of following the common enemy . The hardened savage now produced an old razor , stained with the blood of his ancestors ; with this he released from ...
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... whole where they come . " None are now helped by the government to our colonies unless they can show testimony of a blameless life , and qualities of body and mind with which they might be welcome in the best community . And a worthy ...
... whole where they come . " None are now helped by the government to our colonies unless they can show testimony of a blameless life , and qualities of body and mind with which they might be welcome in the best community . And a worthy ...
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Page 92 - ... before you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them, even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them...
Page 91 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 385 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 344 - Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
Page 161 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was пае stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude that's shed on earth Hins through the springs o
Page 48 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.
Page 118 - Son William, I am weary of the world. I would not live over my days again, if I could command them with a wish ; for the snares of life are greater than the fears of death.
Page 230 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high. The hard brands shiver on the steel, The...
Page 70 - English would wake, we might kill them all sleeping, I removed out of the way all the Guns and Hatchets : but my heart failing me, I put all things where they were again. The next day when we were to be burnt, our Master and some others spake for us, and the Evil was prevented in this place : And hereabouts we lay three Weeks together.
Page 206 - Non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei.