The Retrospective Review, Volume 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 - Books |
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... interest to their religious tenets . " Such is a faint sketch of his valuable life of his style , in preference to an opinion of our own , we shall give that of one better calculated , from close similarity of pursuits , to speak of its ...
... interest to their religious tenets . " Such is a faint sketch of his valuable life of his style , in preference to an opinion of our own , we shall give that of one better calculated , from close similarity of pursuits , to speak of its ...
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... interest of her kindred and relations dies with her . Eliah , the present emperor's father - in - law , was of so mean account , that , within this twenty years , he drew wine to some Englishmen , and his daughter gathered mushrooms ...
... interest of her kindred and relations dies with her . Eliah , the present emperor's father - in - law , was of so mean account , that , within this twenty years , he drew wine to some Englishmen , and his daughter gathered mushrooms ...
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... to whose case the royalist interests had been committed in the Northern counties , having been defeated by 50 Narrative of the Concealment of Charles II . at Boscobel , -Narrative of the Concealment of Charles II at Bosco-
... to whose case the royalist interests had been committed in the Northern counties , having been defeated by 50 Narrative of the Concealment of Charles II . at Boscobel , -Narrative of the Concealment of Charles II at Bosco-
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... interest to the antiquarian and histori- cal pilgrim . Boscobel House is still remaining , very little altered since it had thus the honour to be a royal residence . An excel- lent engraving of its modern front is given in " Shaw's ...
... interest to the antiquarian and histori- cal pilgrim . Boscobel House is still remaining , very little altered since it had thus the honour to be a royal residence . An excel- lent engraving of its modern front is given in " Shaw's ...
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... interest and curiosity . Italy had not yet fallen from the pre - eminence she had so long maintained over the rest of Europe , as the seat of politeness , arts , and letters . Thither the young nobles of France and England resorted , as ...
... interest and curiosity . Italy had not yet fallen from the pre - eminence she had so long maintained over the rest of Europe , as the seat of politeness , arts , and letters . Thither the young nobles of France and England resorted , 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.