The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 194Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1853 - English essays |
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... French exiles , and after French fashion , at nine pence the repast . A commoner led the poet to Lord Moira , and the peer conducted him to the presence and patronage of a prince . The hopes born of the familiar inter- course which ...
... French exiles , and after French fashion , at nine pence the repast . A commoner led the poet to Lord Moira , and the peer conducted him to the presence and patronage of a prince . The hopes born of the familiar inter- course which ...
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... French Revolution , as it was rumoured that we talked politics . From that time no society or meeting for scientific pur- poses existed in Leicester till the Literary and Philosophical Society was established in 1835 , and in this ...
... French Revolution , as it was rumoured that we talked politics . From that time no society or meeting for scientific pur- poses existed in Leicester till the Literary and Philosophical Society was established in 1835 , and in this ...
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... French officers . An incident occurred here that utterly destroyed the harmony between the foreigners and the townspeople . Soulez was playing a game of billiards with John Fenton ; a dispute arose , in which Fenton so grossly insulted ...
... French officers . An incident occurred here that utterly destroyed the harmony between the foreigners and the townspeople . Soulez was playing a game of billiards with John Fenton ; a dispute arose , in which Fenton so grossly insulted ...
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... French manufacture during the late war ( when supplies from the colonies were prevented ) are offered as historical memoranda . they are partly unfavourable , it must be remembered that the knowledge of former If ticles , and hathe ...
... French manufacture during the late war ( when supplies from the colonies were prevented ) are offered as historical memoranda . they are partly unfavourable , it must be remembered that the knowledge of former If ticles , and hathe ...
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... French say ) by M. Proust . But up to that period these inventions had little success . Lord Blayney , who passed some time in France as a prisoner of war on parole , thus describes the result , under the date of 1811. " Sugar , of ...
... French say ) by M. Proust . But up to that period these inventions had little success . Lord Blayney , who passed some time in France as a prisoner of war on parole , thus describes the result , under the date of 1811. " Sugar , of ...
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Page 456 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.
Page 333 - THE Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock ; in him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My saviour ; thou savest me from violence.
Page 368 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Page 369 - On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand; It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart — No voice; but oh!
Page 453 - A plague on Egypt's arts, I say ! Embalm the dead ! on senseless clay Rich wines and spices waste ! Like sturgeon, or like brawn, shall I Bound in a precious pickle, lie Which I can never taste ? Let me embalm this flesh of mine With turtle, fat, and Bordeaux wine And spoil th' Egyptian trade ! Than Humphrey's Duke more happy I — Embalmed alive, old Quin shall die A mummy ready made.
Page 143 - DAGMAR'S Cross, facsimile in gold and colours of the Enamelled Jewel in the Old Northern Museum, Copenhagen, with Introductory Remarks by Prof. GEORGE STEPHENS, FSA 8vo, sewed. 3s RAINE (Rev. James) History and Antiquities of North Durham, as subdivided into the Shires of Norham, Island, and Bedlington, which from the Saxon period until 1844 constituted part of the County of Durham, but are now united to Northumberland. BOTH PARTS complete, folio, fine plates (wanting 3 plates in the first part)...
Page 124 - As I was within that distance, at which in the quickest firing, I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach, I had only to determine; but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty - so I let him alone".
Page 370 - Christ! what saw I there! Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood!
Page 369 - Twas not those souls that fled in pain, Which to their corses came again, But a troop of spirits blest...
Page 138 - ... Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh ! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness — Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! XLIII.