A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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Page 55
... I am sure , the resem- blance is so near , that had he lived before him , he might have been a type of him . " . To the declaration signed by Lord Anglesey , that E 4 Author of Eikon Basilikč vindicated . 55 . On the Eikon Basilikč.
... I am sure , the resem- blance is so near , that had he lived before him , he might have been a type of him . " . To the declaration signed by Lord Anglesey , that E 4 Author of Eikon Basilikč vindicated . 55 . On the Eikon Basilikč.
Page 81
... lived under her roof , * can it be sup- posed that she would have sent the book to London , after- wards to be returned to Dr. Hammond , at her house ? And if the sheets in her own hand - writing are now to be supposed an evidence of ...
... lived under her roof , * can it be sup- posed that she would have sent the book to London , after- wards to be returned to Dr. Hammond , at her house ? And if the sheets in her own hand - writing are now to be supposed an evidence of ...
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... lived to bear a part in it ; who with a prodigious expence of time , and inexpressible fatigue to themselves , judiciously corrected and improved the rude and imperfect draughts of the editor . The running titles at the top of the ...
... lived to bear a part in it ; who with a prodigious expence of time , and inexpressible fatigue to themselves , judiciously corrected and improved the rude and imperfect draughts of the editor . The running titles at the top of the ...
Page 151
... lived in the Asiatic Thrace . Rućus ad locum . Vigneuil Marville also espouses the emendation , and thinks it a most happy one , as the river Hebrus , according to all the geographers , had a remarkably slow stream . Melanges de L ...
... lived in the Asiatic Thrace . Rućus ad locum . Vigneuil Marville also espouses the emendation , and thinks it a most happy one , as the river Hebrus , according to all the geographers , had a remarkably slow stream . Melanges de L ...
Page 179
... lived , when a youth , at Daventry , in the house of Florentius , where , with other young men , for a subsistence , as printing was then either unknown , or in its infant state , he employed much of his time in tran- scripts of this ...
... lived , when a youth , at Daventry , in the house of Florentius , where , with other young men , for a subsistence , as printing was then either unknown , or in its infant state , he employed much of his time in tran- scripts of this ...
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Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
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Page 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
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Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...