Retrospective Review, المجلد 14Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... known ; and I believe the halibut of the West is the Northern and Eastern turbot ; and I would fain know how your halibut and turbot differ ; for if there be another fish of the make and bigness of your turbot , it is a stranger to me ...
... known ; and I believe the halibut of the West is the Northern and Eastern turbot ; and I would fain know how your halibut and turbot differ ; for if there be another fish of the make and bigness of your turbot , it is a stranger to me ...
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... known to spawn ; from which we may infer , ( though we are ready to ac- knowledge that , respecting the gestatory powers of fish , much mystery remains to be cleared up , ) that the sprat is , if not per- fectly matured , at least ...
... known to spawn ; from which we may infer , ( though we are ready to ac- knowledge that , respecting the gestatory powers of fish , much mystery remains to be cleared up , ) that the sprat is , if not per- fectly matured , at least ...
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... known , by repeated observations , to be ninety miles an hour .. And Montagu , an ornithologist on whom the greatest de- pendence can be placed , estimates the rapidity with which a hawk , and many other birds , occasionally fly , as ...
... known , by repeated observations , to be ninety miles an hour .. And Montagu , an ornithologist on whom the greatest de- pendence can be placed , estimates the rapidity with which a hawk , and many other birds , occasionally fly , as ...
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... known in their days ; Aristotle having asserted that spiders dart their threads as porcupines do their quills , and ( Hist . Anim . lib . 9 , c . 39 ) thus expressing himself : “ Aranei statim cum editi sunt , fila mittunt , non ...
... known in their days ; Aristotle having asserted that spiders dart their threads as porcupines do their quills , and ( Hist . Anim . lib . 9 , c . 39 ) thus expressing himself : “ Aranei statim cum editi sunt , fila mittunt , non ...
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... known to yourself ; and I challenge it only by way of emulation , not envy , there being nothing more likely than that several persons , following the same studies , may , many of them , light upon one and the same observation . I am no ...
... known to yourself ; and I challenge it only by way of emulation , not envy , there being nothing more likely than that several persons , following the same studies , may , many of them , light upon one and the same observation . I am no ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 316 - 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, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 297 - Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse.
الصفحة 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 326 - Fate could not choose a more malicious hour! What greater curse could envious Fortune give, Than just to die, when I began to live! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave! Never, O never more to see the sun! Still dark, in a damp vault, and still alone!
الصفحة 283 - Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.