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... readers inform me whether Mr. Catlett was actually buried at Olney , or whether this inscription was only intended as a memorial ? AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED.— C. Who is the author of a poem the subject of which is a tulip which its owner ...
... readers inform me whether Mr. Catlett was actually buried at Olney , or whether this inscription was only intended as a memorial ? AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED.— C. Who is the author of a poem the subject of which is a tulip which its owner ...
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... readers as the words which I have quoted are displeasing to a large minority , I presume that my note would be rejected . I am avoiding any ap- pearance of reprisals ; they would be easily made . But my wish , and I think the general ...
... readers as the words which I have quoted are displeasing to a large minority , I presume that my note would be rejected . I am avoiding any ap- pearance of reprisals ; they would be easily made . But my wish , and I think the general ...
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... readers notice of the life of Mr. James Grant , the author would inform me who he was and when he lived , of the History of the Newspaper Press , which ap- and in what writings these legends and the philo - peared in the Bookseller for ...
... readers notice of the life of Mr. James Grant , the author would inform me who he was and when he lived , of the History of the Newspaper Press , which ap- and in what writings these legends and the philo - peared in the Bookseller for ...
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... readers tell me to what Sexton this refers ? SALES BY AUCTION . - Is it known when they were first practised in England ? ANON . THE FARTHING PIE HOUSE , MARYLEBONE.— Where was this place ? Why so named ? GEORGE ELLIS . St. John's Wood ...
... readers tell me to what Sexton this refers ? SALES BY AUCTION . - Is it known when they were first practised in England ? ANON . THE FARTHING PIE HOUSE , MARYLEBONE.— Where was this place ? Why so named ? GEORGE ELLIS . St. John's Wood ...
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... readers kindly to refer me to any sources of information respecting this old family ? ABHBA . “ TALENTED . ” — Has the origin of this word been exactly determined yet ? We all know what Macaulay said of it in his conversation with Lady ...
... readers kindly to refer me to any sources of information respecting this old family ? ABHBA . “ TALENTED . ” — Has the origin of this word been exactly determined yet ? We all know what Macaulay said of it in his conversation with Lady ...
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Page 320 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 320 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 68 - Our cuirassiers have burst on the ranks of the Accurst, And at a shock have scattered the forest of his pikes. Fast, fast, the gallants ride, in some safe nook to hide Their coward heads, predestined to rot on Temple Bar: And he — he turns, he flies: — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war.
Page 20 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 200 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 5 - Then so many as shall be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire, or in some convenient place nigh the quire, the men on the one side, and the women on the other side.
Page 60 - ild you ! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Page 96 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.
Page 20 - Union that four Lords Spiritual of Ireland by rotation of Sessions, and twenty-eight Lords Temporal of Ireland, elected for life by the Peers of Ireland, shall be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
Page 69 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.