The Retrospective Review, المجلد 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... four- teen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that weight . " Having thus commenced with fish , as the top dish of our entertainment , we shall produce the other remark- able varieties afforded in the pages of this work , the ...
... four- teen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that weight . " Having thus commenced with fish , as the top dish of our entertainment , we shall produce the other remark- able varieties afforded in the pages of this work , the ...
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... four hours and a half , at a rate , not far short of sixty miles an hour . Allowing , therefore , to the woodcock , field - fare , and a few other Norwegian visitors , only half that speed , or the mere jog - trot pace of our London ...
... four hours and a half , at a rate , not far short of sixty miles an hour . Allowing , therefore , to the woodcock , field - fare , and a few other Norwegian visitors , only half that speed , or the mere jog - trot pace of our London ...
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... four hours , appeared to contain in each drop a host of animalcula . We have neither wit nor intention to uphold the exploded doctrine of equivocal generation , but the most prejudiced must allow the production of life to be a mys- tery ...
... four hours , appeared to contain in each drop a host of animalcula . We have neither wit nor intention to uphold the exploded doctrine of equivocal generation , but the most prejudiced must allow the production of life to be a mys- tery ...
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... four or five lords , went to the lion's towre , and caused the lustiest lion to be separated from his mate , and put into the lion's den one dog alone ; who , presently , flew to the face of the lion , but the lion suddenly shooke him ...
... four or five lords , went to the lion's towre , and caused the lustiest lion to be separated from his mate , and put into the lion's den one dog alone ; who , presently , flew to the face of the lion , but the lion suddenly shooke him ...
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... four years ago , a merchant beat his wife as long as he was able , with a whip two inches about , and then cau- sed to put on a smock dipt in brandy three or four times distilled , which he set on fire , and so the poor creature ...
... four years ago , a merchant beat his wife as long as he was able , with a whip two inches about , and then cau- sed to put on a smock dipt in brandy three or four times distilled , which he set on fire , and so the poor creature ...
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الصفحة 316 - O 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...
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 296 - Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them.
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 304 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
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 297 - ... philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse. The apostle Paul himself thought it not unworthy to insert a verse of Euripides into the text of Holy Scripture, 1 Cor. xv. 33; and Pareeus commenting on the Revelation, divides the whole book as a tragedy, into acts distinguished each by a chorus of heavenly harpings and song between.
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 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
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.