The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and Verse:: Consisting of Original Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, Dialogues, Letters, Characters, &c. &c. In Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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... Doctor Magennis Paul Heffernan Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Lord Trea- surer Burghley General Greene Life of Thaddeus Ruddy Mrs. Pilkington William Salden Character of a Common Fiddler Sortes Virgilianæ Portrait of Bonaparte , by ...
... Doctor Magennis Paul Heffernan Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Lord Trea- surer Burghley General Greene Life of Thaddeus Ruddy Mrs. Pilkington William Salden Character of a Common Fiddler Sortes Virgilianæ Portrait of Bonaparte , by ...
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... Bishop of Derry 346 Horrid Executions 347 Sir Arthur Brook 349 Letter written by an Indian Sachem 350 The Curate's Study 353 Doctor Foster 356 5 The The English Verb Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Dissolution of CONTENTS .
... Bishop of Derry 346 Horrid Executions 347 Sir Arthur Brook 349 Letter written by an Indian Sachem 350 The Curate's Study 353 Doctor Foster 356 5 The The English Verb Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Dissolution of CONTENTS .
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... Doctor Bacon 372 Stanislaus , King of Poland ib . Beaujon , the Farmer General 374 Father Aranaz 375 Sir W. Petty 376 Medallion of John Lilborne 377 Speech of an Indian King Picture of the French ib . 379 Sir W. Jones 380 Primate Stone ...
... Doctor Bacon 372 Stanislaus , King of Poland ib . Beaujon , the Farmer General 374 Father Aranaz 375 Sir W. Petty 376 Medallion of John Lilborne 377 Speech of an Indian King Picture of the French ib . 379 Sir W. Jones 380 Primate Stone ...
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... Doctor , with all his talents and learning , would have never been known , but as a mere dealer out of nouns and pronouns , if he had not cultivated the acquaintance of Swift . Excuse me , Sir ; old men are like grasshoppers , they ...
... Doctor , with all his talents and learning , would have never been known , but as a mere dealer out of nouns and pronouns , if he had not cultivated the acquaintance of Swift . Excuse me , Sir ; old men are like grasshoppers , they ...
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... Doctor was rather wild in his youth . T Sheridan . As wild as if he had been bred in the woods of America . His father kept a pack of hounds , and if he had not parted with them in time , he would have shared the fate of Acteon . The ...
... Doctor was rather wild in his youth . T Sheridan . As wild as if he had been bred in the woods of America . His father kept a pack of hounds , and if he had not parted with them in time , he would have shared the fate of Acteon . The ...
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Page 306 - At home, by ill temper. She was a professed enemy to flattery, And was seldom known to praise or commend ; BUT The talents in which she principally excelled, Were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and imperfections. She was an admirable economist, And, without prodigality, Dispensed plenty to every person in her family ; BUT Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities ; BUT Much more frequently miserable — with her many...
Page 248 - Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation...
Page 378 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Page 280 - ... deduced from the nature and reason of things. We believe the existence of an Almighty Being from the consideration of his wonderful works, from those innumerable celestial and glorious bodies, and from their wonderful order and harmony. "We have also spent some time in viewing those wonders which are to be seen in the minute part of the world, and that with great pleasure and satisfaction.
Page 305 - HERE lie the bodies of Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife. She was temperate, chaste, and charitable; BUT, she was proud, peevish, and passionate. She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother...
Page 311 - ... that many of you will find it difficult to reconcile my appearance yesterday with my character. Many of you, I know, will say that my moments would have been better employed in praying for the unhappy man than in attending him to the fatal tree, and that perhaps curiosity was the only cause that converted me into a spectator on that occasion. But those who ascribe that uncharitable motive to me, are under a mistake. I...
Page 157 - Threni Hibernici ; or Ireland sympathizing with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah...
Page 290 - Some years ago the Shawano Indians, being obliged to remove from their habitations, in their way took a Muskohge warrior, known by the name of old Scrany, prisoner; they bastinadoed him severely, and condemned him to the fiery torture.
Page 327 - ... or a man wounded. At another time, five boys fetched in four cows. They that stood on the hills, called to one in a house in the valley, crying, " Shoot, Anthony ; " but Anthony thought it good to sleep in a whole skin, and durst not look out, so that afterwards it grew into a proverbial jeer, from the defendants to the assailants, " Shoot, Anthony." The rebels having spent much time and ammunition, and some men, and yet being as far from hopes of taking the castle as the first day they came...
Page 379 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those...