The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 302Bradbury, Evans, 1907 - English periodicals |
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... persons who signed the Charter of 1612 , twenty - five were peers of the realm ; one hundred and eleven , knights ; sixty- six , esquires ; and thirty , gentlemen , a designation which , at that period , had a meaning distinctive of a ...
... persons who signed the Charter of 1612 , twenty - five were peers of the realm ; one hundred and eleven , knights ; sixty- six , esquires ; and thirty , gentlemen , a designation which , at that period , had a meaning distinctive of a ...
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... persons who accom- panied the expedition of 1606 , the earliest of all , the names of fifty - four were entered in the records as those of " gentlemen . " There were thirty - three persons of that class in a total company of one hundred ...
... persons who accom- panied the expedition of 1606 , the earliest of all , the names of fifty - four were entered in the records as those of " gentlemen . " There were thirty - three persons of that class in a total company of one hundred ...
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... Persons of all classes invariably spoke of England as home , although the great majority had never seen the ancient cities and green fields of their ancestral land oversea . We find the term used even in the driest business letters and ...
... Persons of all classes invariably spoke of England as home , although the great majority had never seen the ancient cities and green fields of their ancestral land oversea . We find the term used even in the driest business letters and ...
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... persons with no claim to that social rank were not per- mitted to participate in it beyond being mere spectators . In 1673 , a tailor , who resided in York county , was fined one ... person , whatever his station in England's First Colony 17.
... persons with no claim to that social rank were not per- mitted to participate in it beyond being mere spectators . In 1673 , a tailor , who resided in York county , was fined one ... person , whatever his station in England's First Colony 17.
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I ability of every person , whatever his station in life , to gratify a taste for hunting even large game , since the wild animals of the country continued numerous throughout the colonial period , owing to the thick forests covering so ...
I ability of every person , whatever his station in life , to gratify a taste for hunting even large game , since the wild animals of the country continued numerous throughout the colonial period , owing to the thick forests covering so ...
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Page 471 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 389 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Page 275 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields...
Page 127 - O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again ! The Past is deaf to your prayer : Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into- light ; It is daybreak everywhere.
Page 273 - Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition.
Page 86 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 596 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it; Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Page 389 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 270 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley...
Page 507 - ROBIN HOOD and Little John, They both are gone to the fair, O ! And we will go to the merry green- wood, To see what they do there, O ! And for to chase, O ! To chase the buck and doe.