The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 162Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1837 - English essays |
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... effect , is to clear away the valuable substance from the soils of antiquity , repair what is imperfect , and illuminate what is obscure . But literature is a body possessing a perpetual vitality , an inexhaustible power of increase in ...
... effect , is to clear away the valuable substance from the soils of antiquity , repair what is imperfect , and illuminate what is obscure . But literature is a body possessing a perpetual vitality , an inexhaustible power of increase in ...
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... effect of the motion of the earth , supposing that the earth does move ; and , consequently , that the cessation of the moon's motion is the natural effect or consequence of the cessation of the earth's but , I think , I need not beg ...
... effect of the motion of the earth , supposing that the earth does move ; and , consequently , that the cessation of the moon's motion is the natural effect or consequence of the cessation of the earth's but , I think , I need not beg ...
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... effect on the multitude of spectators by no means striking . March 28. - Looked into a supplementary volume of Johnson's Works by Stockdale . His vindication of the licencers is a fine and masterly piece of irony , and shows that he ...
... effect on the multitude of spectators by no means striking . March 28. - Looked into a supplementary volume of Johnson's Works by Stockdale . His vindication of the licencers is a fine and masterly piece of irony , and shows that he ...
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... effects of a striking anecdote . It is , however , beyond doubt , that the prominent per- sonages of this trilogic ... effect . What , to the timo- rous conscience of your correspondent , assumes a character of gravity , was to him a ...
... effects of a striking anecdote . It is , however , beyond doubt , that the prominent per- sonages of this trilogic ... effect . What , to the timo- rous conscience of your correspondent , assumes a character of gravity , was to him a ...
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... effect which they opened ye graves , took up the bodies , stabbing and mangling them in a fearfull manner . Some y ' had long been buried , were not yet consum'd , and such they cut all to pieces , and of this were some of of nation ...
... effect which they opened ye graves , took up the bodies , stabbing and mangling them in a fearfull manner . Some y ' had long been buried , were not yet consum'd , and such they cut all to pieces , and of this were some of of nation ...
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Page 218 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 46 - Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here, and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, not knowing what he said.
Page 217 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 552 - Pray, madam, where did you ever find the epithet 'good' applied to the title of doctor? Had you called me learned doctor,' or 'grave doctor,' or 'noble doctor,' it might be allowable, because they belong to the profession.
Page 552 - I am not so ignorant, madam, as not to see there are many sarcasms contained in it, and solecisms also. (Solecism is a word that comes from the town of Soleis in Attica, among the Greeks, built by Solon, and applied as we use the word Kidderminster...
Page 552 - What a pity ! How does it surprise one ! Two handsomer culprits I never set eyes on ! Then their friends all come round me with cringing and leering, To melt me to pity and soften my swearing. First Sir Charles advances with phrases well strung, Consider, dear Doctor, the girls are but young.
Page 582 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 630 - Stranger, to whom this monument is shown, Invoke the poet's curse upon Malone ; Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste betrays, And daubs his tombstone as he mars his plays ! " * An engraved head of Shakspere faces the title-page of an early folio edition of his works.
Page 73 - That by the law and privilege of Parliament, this house has the sole and exclusive jurisdiction to determine upon the existence and extent of its privileges; and that the institution or prosecution of any action, suit, or other proceeding, for the purpose of bringing them into discussion or decision before any court or tribunal elsewhere than in Parliament, is a high breach of privilege, and renders all parties concerned therein amenable to its just displeasure, and to the punishment consequent thereon.
Page 227 - That we on Earth, with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good.