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Pagina 5
... given in The Athe- naum , No. 1058. , for the 5th Feb. , 1848 , and there several references will be found to cognate super- stitions . My object is to ask if the song is known elsewhere ; and if so , whether with any such va- rieties ...
... given in The Athe- naum , No. 1058. , for the 5th Feb. , 1848 , and there several references will be found to cognate super- stitions . My object is to ask if the song is known elsewhere ; and if so , whether with any such va- rieties ...
Pagina 15
... given up as delusion . 66 a But the lady herself remains a " great fact , " and a physiological curiosity ; and there is yet a sub- ject for inquiry respecting her . We may identify her on the herald's tree , if not on the painter's ...
... given up as delusion . 66 a But the lady herself remains a " great fact , " and a physiological curiosity ; and there is yet a sub- ject for inquiry respecting her . We may identify her on the herald's tree , if not on the painter's ...
Pagina 26
... given to the World , than the Figure they have made in it , and the Share they have in our Admiration , natu- rally demand . The Dramatic Authors indeed have had some Writers who have transmitted Accounts of their works to Posterity ...
... given to the World , than the Figure they have made in it , and the Share they have in our Admiration , natu- rally demand . The Dramatic Authors indeed have had some Writers who have transmitted Accounts of their works to Posterity ...
Pagina 36
... given where I find the letter , in the same vol . of Nichols , p . 535 . But we may safely gather from it , that at that time " honest Mr. Gay " was at Cambridge , and in esteem ; whether a resident , as should seem most likely from the ...
... given where I find the letter , in the same vol . of Nichols , p . 535 . But we may safely gather from it , that at that time " honest Mr. Gay " was at Cambridge , and in esteem ; whether a resident , as should seem most likely from the ...
Pagina 39
... given to the best of their cavalrye in the fight near Worcester , as at Kineton , Braynford , Marle- borough , Newbery , and many other places , where he hath received severall wounds . " D. is probably not aware of the very copious ...
... given to the best of their cavalrye in the fight near Worcester , as at Kineton , Braynford , Marle- borough , Newbery , and many other places , where he hath received severall wounds . " D. is probably not aware of the very copious ...
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Pagina 76 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pagina 336 - A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light...
Pagina 32 - And I will come down and talk with thee there : and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Pagina 175 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place...
Pagina 293 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illud ct vanissimum Malmsburiense animal.
Pagina 116 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a papermill.
Pagina 129 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of spiritualty and temporalty, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience...
Pagina 151 - It is astonishing how little obsolete the language of it is, even at this day ; and in point of perspicuity and noble simplicity, propriety of idiom, and purity of style, no English version has yet surpassed it.
Pagina 107 - The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow : at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear; And floating about the under-sky, Prevailing in weakness the coronach...
Pagina 99 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...