Retrospective Review, Volume 14Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1826 - Bibliography |
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... to this world : I look upon myself as a dying man - God requite your kindness expressed any ways towards me an hundred fold , bless you with a confluence of all good 30 Philosophical Correspondence of Ray and Willughby .
... to this world : I look upon myself as a dying man - God requite your kindness expressed any ways towards me an hundred fold , bless you with a confluence of all good 30 Philosophical Correspondence of Ray and Willughby .
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... look upon learning as a monster , fear it no less than a ship of wild- fire ; and thus they verify the old saying , Ars nullum habet inimicum præter ignorantem . " He then gives an account of the introduction of Christia- nity among the ...
... look upon learning as a monster , fear it no less than a ship of wild- fire ; and thus they verify the old saying , Ars nullum habet inimicum præter ignorantem . " He then gives an account of the introduction of Christia- nity among the ...
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... look upon the Romish statue - worship as idolatry . They kneel not in their devotions , but lie prostrate ; and upon some great vigils they stay all night in their churches , at certain times prostrating and cross- ing themselves , and ...
... look upon the Romish statue - worship as idolatry . They kneel not in their devotions , but lie prostrate ; and upon some great vigils they stay all night in their churches , at certain times prostrating and cross- ing themselves , and ...
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... look upon them , for fear they should cast some ill aspect upon them . " Their children are commonly strong and hardy ; they give them suck not above a month or two , at most ; after which , they feed them with a horn , or silver cup ...
... look upon them , for fear they should cast some ill aspect upon them . " Their children are commonly strong and hardy ; they give them suck not above a month or two , at most ; after which , they feed them with a horn , or silver cup ...
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... if any of her ministers shall receive any affront abroad , she is able to revenge her own quarrel . Look you there ( quoth Juan Vasilowidg , to his boyars ) ; there is a brave fellow , indeed , that dares 40 Dr. Collins's Survey of Russia .
... if any of her ministers shall receive any affront abroad , she is able to revenge her own quarrel . Look you there ( quoth Juan Vasilowidg , to his boyars ) ; there is a brave fellow , indeed , that dares 40 Dr. Collins's Survey of Russia .
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Page 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.
Page 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.