The Retrospective Review, Volume 1John Russell Smith, 1853 |
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Pagina 6
... tell you how much bigger the Louvre is than Whitehall ; buy a suit à - la - mode , get a swinging of some French marquise , spend all their money , and return just as they went . Dull . For the old fellows , their business is usury ...
... tell you how much bigger the Louvre is than Whitehall ; buy a suit à - la - mode , get a swinging of some French marquise , spend all their money , and return just as they went . Dull . For the old fellows , their business is usury ...
Pagina 18
... tells us , " Those , " he tells us , " who had the happiness to be personally acquainted with her , were so charmed with her wit , freedom of temper , and agreeable conversation , that they , in a manner , adored her . " A lady , who ...
... tells us , " Those , " he tells us , " who had the happiness to be personally acquainted with her , were so charmed with her wit , freedom of temper , and agreeable conversation , that they , in a manner , adored her . " A lady , who ...
Pagina 29
... tells us , that wines , in the time of the old Romans , were medicated with pitch and resin . Wherefore , but for their aphrodisiac qualities ? Pliny also records , that it was customary for the 1852. ] 29 Bishop Berkeley on Tar - Water .
... tells us , that wines , in the time of the old Romans , were medicated with pitch and resin . Wherefore , but for their aphrodisiac qualities ? Pliny also records , that it was customary for the 1852. ] 29 Bishop Berkeley on Tar - Water .
Pagina 32
... tells his countrymen , they are all mad , or hypochondriac , which is but a fashionable name for madness ; and , lastly , the dignified defamer is also ungallant enough to denounce English ladies as dram - drinkers and drunkards ! 66 ...
... tells his countrymen , they are all mad , or hypochondriac , which is but a fashionable name for madness ; and , lastly , the dignified defamer is also ungallant enough to denounce English ladies as dram - drinkers and drunkards ! 66 ...
Pagina 45
... tells his right reverend episcopal friends , that he considered , and viewed , " not without griefe of mind , and sorrow of heart , the great miserie and encumbrance of this our goodly coun- trie , the countrie of England , by reason of ...
... tells his right reverend episcopal friends , that he considered , and viewed , " not without griefe of mind , and sorrow of heart , the great miserie and encumbrance of this our goodly coun- trie , the countrie of England , by reason of ...
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Pagina 377 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pagina 82 - ... before you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them, even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them...
Pagina 81 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Pagina 84 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul...
Pagina 336 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Pagina 344 - Britanniae pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos natos in insula ipsa memoria proditum dicunt : maritima pars ab iis, qui praedae ac belli inferendi causa ex Belgis transierant : qui omnes fere iis nominibus civitatum appellantur, quibus orti ex civitatibus eo pervenerunt, et bello illato ibi remanserunt, atque agros colere cœperunt.
Pagina 13 - Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One From Another.
Pagina 58 - I (as it hapned) had a Pistol by me which though uncharged I presented to the Indian, who presently stept back; and told me if I would yield I should have no hurt, he said (which was not true) that they had destroyed all Hatfield, and that the woods were full of Indians, whereupon I yielded myself...
Pagina 220 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high. The hard brands shiver on the steel, The...
Pagina 213 - Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. "His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een: Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.