Retrospective Review, Volume 14Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1826 - Bibliography |
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... English serpents- " I never knew nor heard of above three kinds ; and though one cannot be sure of a negative , I verily believe there are no more . Those are , 1. Natrix torquata , or the snake , so called , because it hath a pale ...
... English serpents- " I never knew nor heard of above three kinds ; and though one cannot be sure of a negative , I verily believe there are no more . Those are , 1. Natrix torquata , or the snake , so called , because it hath a pale ...
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... English Papilios , " reckons their number at about forty , whereas the present number con- sists of about eighty - three . We shall now make a short excursion into the vegetable world . Every body has heard of weeping willows , but few ...
... English Papilios , " reckons their number at about forty , whereas the present number con- sists of about eighty - three . We shall now make a short excursion into the vegetable world . Every body has heard of weeping willows , but few ...
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... English Turkey merchant opened another in London , which was kept by his Greek ser- vant ; but we fear , that its sedative and tranquillising qualities were little valued , and out of vogue , and some more potent be- verage patronised ...
... English Turkey merchant opened another in London , which was kept by his Greek ser- vant ; but we fear , that its sedative and tranquillising qualities were little valued , and out of vogue , and some more potent be- verage patronised ...
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... English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and three months old as well as most lads twice his age . " It would be unpardonable in these our days , when lions hold tournaments , and elephants , renouncing their allegiance ...
... English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and three months old as well as most lads twice his age . " It would be unpardonable in these our days , when lions hold tournaments , and elephants , renouncing their allegiance ...
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... English , Scotch , and Dutch , who have renounced their religion , few , or none , have died a natural death . " Chapter II . relates to the ceremonies of marriage among the Russians , many of which are curious enough . " The bridegroom ...
... English , Scotch , and Dutch , who have renounced their religion , few , or none , have died a natural death . " Chapter II . relates to the ceremonies of marriage among the Russians , many of which are curious enough . " The bridegroom ...
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Page 297 - This is mentioned to vindicate Tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes ; happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Page 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 105 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 316 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 288 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 297 - Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse.
Page 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 297 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 326 - Fate could not choose a more malicious hour! What greater curse could envious Fortune give, Than just to die, when I began to live! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave! Never, O never more to see the sun! Still dark, in a damp vault, and still alone!
Page 283 - Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.