Spirit of the English Magazines, 13. köideMunroe and Francis, 1823 |
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... king of Per- First love Fires , destruction caused by grass , in scripture Field sports in India , by the na- tives ... Kings of En- gland 111 112 Harry Halter the Highwayman Lord Lansdown and his patent coach 230 48 Henry VIII . 119 ...
... king of Per- First love Fires , destruction caused by grass , in scripture Field sports in India , by the na- tives ... Kings of En- gland 111 112 Harry Halter the Highwayman Lord Lansdown and his patent coach 230 48 Henry VIII . 119 ...
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... King , under whose glori- ous auspices it was so gloriously con- ducted and so gloriously concluded . A Preface explains the delay of publica- tion , till the fullest and most correct knowledge of the subject could be ob- tained ; and ...
... King , under whose glori- ous auspices it was so gloriously con- ducted and so gloriously concluded . A Preface explains the delay of publica- tion , till the fullest and most correct knowledge of the subject could be ob- tained ; and ...
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... King Sebastian , whose re - appearance is as confidently expected by many of the Portugueze as the coming of the Messiah by the Jews . The rise and progress of this belief forms a curious part of their history : it began in hope , when ...
... King Sebastian , whose re - appearance is as confidently expected by many of the Portugueze as the coming of the Messiah by the Jews . The rise and progress of this belief forms a curious part of their history : it began in hope , when ...
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... King Sebastian in the belly of a fish , appointing him to meet him at night on a certain part of the shore . A more skilful trick was practised upon another with perfect suc- cess . An egg was produced with the letters V. D. S. R. P. ...
... King Sebastian in the belly of a fish , appointing him to meet him at night on a certain part of the shore . A more skilful trick was practised upon another with perfect suc- cess . An egg was produced with the letters V. D. S. R. P. ...
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... king , is he who gave his courtiers a lesson on the sea - shore . The learn- ing , and the fine qualities of Henry the Second , are little known : he is the paramour of fair Rosamond ; nothing more . The pebbles of Demosthenes , the ...
... king , is he who gave his courtiers a lesson on the sea - shore . The learn- ing , and the fine qualities of Henry the Second , are little known : he is the paramour of fair Rosamond ; nothing more . The pebbles of Demosthenes , the ...
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Page 165 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Page 81 - Ines had always, for me, an inexpressible charm : O saw ye not fair Ines ? She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down. And rob the world of rest : She took our daylight with her, The smiles that we love best, With morning blushes on her cheek, And pearls upon her breast.
Page 483 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 396 - Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread ; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Page 425 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 268 - From the night-bird's lay through the starry time, In the groves of the soft Hesperian clime ; To the swan's wild note by the Iceland lakes, When the dark fir-branch into verdure breaks. From...
Page 398 - After getting through these passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest! Surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me...
Page 268 - Come forth, O ye children of gladness ! come ! Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose-lip and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly ! With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine — I may not stay.
Page 278 - Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins : thy neck is as a tower of ivory. Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Page 398 - ... with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust, themselves resembling living mummies, absolutely formed a scene that cannot be described.