The Retrospective Review, Volume 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 - Books |
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... expressed with respect to the widgeon and sheldin , another species of duck . " I have put up some hollow bones which Mr. Yarrel , of Bury Street , St. James's Street , has , indeed , devoted much time to this interesting part of ...
... expressed with respect to the widgeon and sheldin , another species of duck . " I have put up some hollow bones which Mr. Yarrel , of Bury Street , St. James's Street , has , indeed , devoted much time to this interesting part of ...
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... expressed in the following beautiful passage : " When I used to rise in a morning last autumn , and see the swallows and martins clus- tering on the chimneys and thatch of the neighbouring cottages , I could not help being touched with ...
... expressed in the following beautiful passage : " When I used to rise in a morning last autumn , and see the swallows and martins clus- tering on the chimneys and thatch of the neighbouring cottages , I could not help being touched with ...
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... expression ) , or tails , against them as they creep along . By this frequent beating in of their threads among the asperities of the place where they creep , they either secure it against the wind , that it is not so easily blown away ...
... expression ) , or tails , against them as they creep along . By this frequent beating in of their threads among the asperities of the place where they creep , they either secure it against the wind , that it is not so easily blown away ...
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... expressed an undefined period of time , antecedent to the last great change that affected the surface of the earth , and to the creation of its present animal and vegetable inhabitants ; and that the days of the Mosaic are not to be ...
... expressed an undefined period of time , antecedent to the last great change that affected the surface of the earth , and to the creation of its present animal and vegetable inhabitants ; and that the days of the Mosaic are not to be ...
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... expressed , re- specting the any thing but sober and sedate character of the coffee - houses of those days . In a letter from the same person , we meet with an interesting account , which , as it relates to so distinguished a person as ...
... expressed , re- specting the any thing but sober and sedate character of the coffee - houses of those days . In a letter from the same person , we meet with an interesting account , which , as it relates to so distinguished a person as ...
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Page 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...
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
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.