The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., 92. köideEdw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1822 |
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... character SYLVANUS URBAN has maintained during the eventful period of Ninety - two years ; whilst numerous rivals , who for a short time " fretted their hour away , " have sunk into oblivion . They affirm that his Publication is the ...
... character SYLVANUS URBAN has maintained during the eventful period of Ninety - two years ; whilst numerous rivals , who for a short time " fretted their hour away , " have sunk into oblivion . They affirm that his Publication is the ...
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... character . Women will not easily err , with the prospect only of becoming prostitutes . Laws founded upon manifest folly and mischief , cannot be vindicated . Exoneration of parishes from the ex- pence of supporting the children , and ...
... character . Women will not easily err , with the prospect only of becoming prostitutes . Laws founded upon manifest folly and mischief , cannot be vindicated . Exoneration of parishes from the ex- pence of supporting the children , and ...
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... character . The gardens of St. Cloud were laid open , and every description of jollity was in full pay . Roundabouts circulating men , women and chil- dren ; dancing at the various parts of the garden ; gambling in the small way ...
... character . The gardens of St. Cloud were laid open , and every description of jollity was in full pay . Roundabouts circulating men , women and chil- dren ; dancing at the various parts of the garden ; gambling in the small way ...
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... character of a gentleman , a scholar , or a dignified divine . But peace to his memory ; he now is , and long has been , out of the reach of all that tor- rent of unmerited , and abusive , idle ridicule , ungenerously and illiberally ...
... character of a gentleman , a scholar , or a dignified divine . But peace to his memory ; he now is , and long has been , out of the reach of all that tor- rent of unmerited , and abusive , idle ridicule , ungenerously and illiberally ...
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... character of the old ten - syllable chiming in couplets , would not admit lively and appropriate illustrations , but compel the author to use some tame , vapid , spiritless forma- lity of expression . " The insults too of every servile ...
... character of the old ten - syllable chiming in couplets , would not admit lively and appropriate illustrations , but compel the author to use some tame , vapid , spiritless forma- lity of expression . " The insults too of every servile ...
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Page 58 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 223 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the x congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins...
Page 497 - Well! It is now publique, and you wil stand for your priviledges wee know; -to read and censure. Do so, but buy it first.
Page 248 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 495 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 348 - Establishment, and the means of exciting among its members a spirit of devotion, to which the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union, in the diocese of St David's, adjudged a premium of £50 in December 1820 ; by Rev.
Page 200 - God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 200 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase ; so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Page 410 - THE power of the sword is more sensibly felt in an extensive monarchy than in a small community. It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no state, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
Page 60 - Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er The waves as they arose, and prouder still The loftier they uplifted me ; and oft, In wantonness of spirit, plunging down Into their green and glassy gulfs, and making My way to shells and sea-weed, all unseen By those above, till they wax'd fearful ; then Returning with my grasp full of such tokens As show'd that I had search'd the deep : exulting, With a far-dashing stroke, and drawing...