The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 159Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1836 - English essays |
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... hand ; watches the mysterious movement of the hierophant - sees the ladder that is to lead him to his hopes applied— follows the inferior priests as they hurry to and fro at his bidding , till volume after volume is laid before him ...
... hand ; watches the mysterious movement of the hierophant - sees the ladder that is to lead him to his hopes applied— follows the inferior priests as they hurry to and fro at his bidding , till volume after volume is laid before him ...
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... hand of the master of the feast [ just the very place which the Editor whom we have seen occupies ] , and who dealt out his discourse with a sufficient mixture of positiveness and severity [ another pal- pable hit ] . He had dark eyes ...
... hand of the master of the feast [ just the very place which the Editor whom we have seen occupies ] , and who dealt out his discourse with a sufficient mixture of positiveness and severity [ another pal- pable hit ] . He had dark eyes ...
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... hand , and inflated with arrogance at their superior pretensions to rationality , when deduced , on the other . Jan. 9. Read my friend Dr. Pearson's Essay on the Pre - existence of Christ , in his Hulsiau Defence for 1810. The question ...
... hand , and inflated with arrogance at their superior pretensions to rationality , when deduced , on the other . Jan. 9. Read my friend Dr. Pearson's Essay on the Pre - existence of Christ , in his Hulsiau Defence for 1810. The question ...
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... hand . The muscles of the body are admirably well expressed , the whole intimating the most piteous dejection and intense grief . It was formerly a large and hand- some mansion , with gardens laid out down to the banks of the river . A ...
... hand . The muscles of the body are admirably well expressed , the whole intimating the most piteous dejection and intense grief . It was formerly a large and hand- some mansion , with gardens laid out down to the banks of the river . A ...
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... hand , Mr. Devon is to be allowed to publish first a volume containing a translation of a Roll , then a volume of translated extracts , and then probably a translation of some other curiosity which may have turned up in the mean time ...
... hand , Mr. Devon is to be allowed to publish first a volume containing a translation of a Roll , then a volume of translated extracts , and then probably a translation of some other curiosity which may have turned up in the mean time ...
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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.