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... Thomas de Brantingham , 44 Edw . III ...... MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS , No. XII . Correspondence of Pope and Tonson ..... PAGE 2 3 10 15 16 17 Epitaphs on Mrs. Hannah More , Sir T. G. Cullum , and Dr. James Lynn .. 31 , 32 ...
... Thomas de Brantingham , 44 Edw . III ...... MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS , No. XII . Correspondence of Pope and Tonson ..... PAGE 2 3 10 15 16 17 Epitaphs on Mrs. Hannah More , Sir T. G. Cullum , and Dr. James Lynn .. 31 , 32 ...
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... Thomas de Brantingham , 44 Edw . III ......... . MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS , No. XII . Correspondence of Pope and Tonson ... 3 10 15 16 17 27 Epitaphs on Mrs. Hannah More , Sir T. G. Cullum , and Dr. James Lynn .. 31 , 32 Notices ...
... Thomas de Brantingham , 44 Edw . III ......... . MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS , No. XII . Correspondence of Pope and Tonson ... 3 10 15 16 17 27 Epitaphs on Mrs. Hannah More , Sir T. G. Cullum , and Dr. James Lynn .. 31 , 32 Notices ...
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... Thomas Warmstry , son of Wil- liam Warmstry , Esq . registrar of the diocese of Worcester , was installed dean of Worcester 27th of Nov. 1661 . He was born and educated in that city . He was reckoned a famous divine , and was amongst ...
... Thomas Warmstry , son of Wil- liam Warmstry , Esq . registrar of the diocese of Worcester , was installed dean of Worcester 27th of Nov. 1661 . He was born and educated in that city . He was reckoned a famous divine , and was amongst ...
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... Thomas de. apartment , opposite to the entrance , is a raised platform or dais , on which is the head master's seat , and on each side , at the same end of the room , is an oriel . Over the door is a gallery for visitors on the ...
... Thomas de. apartment , opposite to the entrance , is a raised platform or dais , on which is the head master's seat , and on each side , at the same end of the room , is an oriel . Over the door is a gallery for visitors on the ...
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... Thomas de Wodestock , the King's son , p . 78. ' The payment referred to is 5 marks paid to Christian [ Christiana ? ] , wife of John de Enefield , lately nurse to Thomas de Wodestock , being one half - yearly payment of an annuity of ...
... Thomas de Wodestock , the King's son , p . 78. ' The payment referred to is 5 marks paid to Christian [ Christiana ? ] , wife of John de Enefield , lately nurse to Thomas de Wodestock , being one half - yearly payment of an annuity of ...
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Page 216 - 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 syrups, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.
Page 20 - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.
Page 338 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 482 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 116 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Page 230 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
Page 230 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 230 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Page 250 - Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures...
Page 251 - Mr. Watt was an extraordinary and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.