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Pagina 7
... possession of the most exquisite skill , cannot at all reach , an infinite naïveté , a touching simplicity . Especially rich in this respect are the songs which describe the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt : " Joseph he did leap ...
... possession of the most exquisite skill , cannot at all reach , an infinite naïveté , a touching simplicity . Especially rich in this respect are the songs which describe the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt : " Joseph he did leap ...
Pagina 10
... possession of a copy of the above work , presented to my father by the late amiable authoress , Miss Porter . It is , as you are no doubt aware , a journal of adventure in the Carribean Sea and its islands , between 1733 and 1749 ; but ...
... possession of a copy of the above work , presented to my father by the late amiable authoress , Miss Porter . It is , as you are no doubt aware , a journal of adventure in the Carribean Sea and its islands , between 1733 and 1749 ; but ...
Pagina 15
description of that in the possession of the Knight of Kerry ? " I have since met a painter of eminence , who assures me that Horace Walpole's criticism is correct , and that the portraits com- monly known as those of the Countess are ...
description of that in the possession of the Knight of Kerry ? " I have since met a painter of eminence , who assures me that Horace Walpole's criticism is correct , and that the portraits com- monly known as those of the Countess are ...
Pagina 35
... possession of Colonel Gwillim , another of the General's aid - de- camps , who died afterwards at Gibraltar ; and from him to Mrs. Simcoe , the Colonel's only daughter and heiress ; then to Major - General Darling ( who was on General ...
... possession of Colonel Gwillim , another of the General's aid - de- camps , who died afterwards at Gibraltar ; and from him to Mrs. Simcoe , the Colonel's only daughter and heiress ; then to Major - General Darling ( who was on General ...
Pagina 37
... possession of the whole facts , for it is undoubtedly most im- portant to the genealogical or archæological in- quirer . If I am wrong , I shall be glad to stand corrected on the error being pointed out . JOHN NURSE CHADWICK . King's ...
... possession of the whole facts , for it is undoubtedly most im- portant to the genealogical or archæological in- quirer . If I am wrong , I shall be glad to stand corrected on the error being pointed out . JOHN NURSE CHADWICK . King's ...
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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...