The London Mercury, Volume 16Field Press Limited, 1927 - English literature |
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... remarkable ladies . Considering their fame , for which in modern view the slightest justification existed , it is curious how incomplete is the record of their lives and how inaccurate are the legends and statements which concern them ...
... remarkable ladies . Considering their fame , for which in modern view the slightest justification existed , it is curious how incomplete is the record of their lives and how inaccurate are the legends and statements which concern them ...
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... remarkable woman . This was Henrietta , wife of the third Earl of Bessborough , and second daughter of the first Earl Spencer . She was sister of Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire ( " the kindest heart in Europe " ) and mother of the ...
... remarkable woman . This was Henrietta , wife of the third Earl of Bessborough , and second daughter of the first Earl Spencer . She was sister of Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire ( " the kindest heart in Europe " ) and mother of the ...
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... remarkable than his familiarity with the large stores of literature which his position as a learned scholar in a learned age rendered a matter of course . Whatever may be thought of the soundness of his views upon the rise and growth of ...
... remarkable than his familiarity with the large stores of literature which his position as a learned scholar in a learned age rendered a matter of course . Whatever may be thought of the soundness of his views upon the rise and growth of ...
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... remarkable prices of a less sensational kind . The first edition of Christopher Smart's Song to David , quarto , 1763 , for instance , sold for £ 590 . This was given by Messrs . Quaritch , and must , I think , be the highest price ever ...
... remarkable prices of a less sensational kind . The first edition of Christopher Smart's Song to David , quarto , 1763 , for instance , sold for £ 590 . This was given by Messrs . Quaritch , and must , I think , be the highest price ever ...
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... remarkable as that " Up the hill of Ludgate and down the hill of Fleet , " for here along Newgate Street one may see in one vision three of the most beautiful of the satellite churches . Standing at the right place in Newgate Street one ...
... remarkable as that " Up the hill of Ludgate and down the hill of Fleet , " for here along Newgate Street one may see in one vision three of the most beautiful of the satellite churches . Standing at the right place in Newgate Street one ...
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Page 167 - There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy Heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
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Page 348 - Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul. Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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Page 189 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
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Page 233 - The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown And fit the earth like a leather glove. Before the leaves can mount again To fill the trees with another shade, They must go down past things coming up. They must go down into the dark decayed.