The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey: With Historical Sketches and Descriptions of Both Churches : Forming an Entirely New and Correct Biography of All that is Interesting in the Lives and Achievements of the Most Illustrious Characters of the United Kingdoms, المجلد 1John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة xxi
... Charles the II . ordered these unfortunate Princes to be here interred , Among their ancestry , In the twentieth year of his reign , and of our Lord the 1678th . Two monuments to rival beauties , and hostile queens , erected by the same ...
... Charles the II . ordered these unfortunate Princes to be here interred , Among their ancestry , In the twentieth year of his reign , and of our Lord the 1678th . Two monuments to rival beauties , and hostile queens , erected by the same ...
الصفحة xxii
... Charles II . , William and Mary , Queen Anne , & c . In an adjoining vault , constructed for the purpose , were deposited the remains of several members of the House of Brunswick ; but , as they have been subsequently removed to the ...
... Charles II . , William and Mary , Queen Anne , & c . In an adjoining vault , constructed for the purpose , were deposited the remains of several members of the House of Brunswick ; but , as they have been subsequently removed to the ...
الصفحة xxix
... Charles the II . and the Choir was opened for divine service on the day of thanksgiving for the Peace of Ryswich , Decem- ber the 2d , 1697. So commendable an instance of public spirit and personal ability cannot be too often inculcated ...
... Charles the II . and the Choir was opened for divine service on the day of thanksgiving for the Peace of Ryswich , Decem- ber the 2d , 1697. So commendable an instance of public spirit and personal ability cannot be too often inculcated ...
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... Charles II . a pre- bendary in Salisbury Cathedral , and dean of Litchfield as an au- thor he was also known , by a History of the Jews , and a Life of Mahomet . Removed , after the common course of domestic tui- tion , first to a ...
... Charles II . a pre- bendary in Salisbury Cathedral , and dean of Litchfield as an au- thor he was also known , by a History of the Jews , and a Life of Mahomet . Removed , after the common course of domestic tui- tion , first to a ...
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... Charles II . down to George I. may well exemplify these remarks : - Wise Phidias thus , his skill to prove , Through many a god advanced to Jove , And taught the polished rocks to shine With airs and lineaments divine , ' Till Greece ...
... Charles II . down to George I. may well exemplify these remarks : - Wise Phidias thus , his skill to prove , Through many a god advanced to Jove , And taught the polished rocks to shine With airs and lineaments divine , ' Till Greece ...
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الصفحة 19 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
الصفحة 244 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 411 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
الصفحة 385 - Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
الصفحة 244 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
الصفحة 19 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us— And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 284 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
الصفحة 261 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense...
الصفحة 228 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
الصفحة 169 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.