The Retrospective Review.., Volume 4Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1821 |
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... rest : but the misty weather prevented me from distinguishing whether he was on horseback , or on foot . Then turning suddenly about to Alexander and Cecchino , I bid them fire off their pieces , and shewed them how to escape every shot ...
... rest : but the misty weather prevented me from distinguishing whether he was on horseback , or on foot . Then turning suddenly about to Alexander and Cecchino , I bid them fire off their pieces , and shewed them how to escape every shot ...
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... rest , took advantage of the time , and petitioned for the place of Stamp Master to the Mint , which was granted to him upon the spot . Benvenuto was in his twenty - ninth year , when his brother died , of wounds which he had received ...
... rest , took advantage of the time , and petitioned for the place of Stamp Master to the Mint , which was granted to him upon the spot . Benvenuto was in his twenty - ninth year , when his brother died , of wounds which he had received ...
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... rest he passed in pious meditation and sing- ing psalms , or drawing images upon the wall , and writing , with the compound brick - dust , stanzas in praise of the prison and on other subjects . His nails grew to an immoderate length ...
... rest he passed in pious meditation and sing- ing psalms , or drawing images upon the wall , and writing , with the compound brick - dust , stanzas in praise of the prison and on other subjects . His nails grew to an immoderate length ...
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... rest in perfect quietness , And sweetest sugar turns to bitterest gall . The day is night to me , -and darkness day , The time that's past is present to my thought ; Strength becomes weakness - hard is softest clay , I linger , wanting ...
... rest in perfect quietness , And sweetest sugar turns to bitterest gall . The day is night to me , -and darkness day , The time that's past is present to my thought ; Strength becomes weakness - hard is softest clay , I linger , wanting ...
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... rest , and we shall therefore dwell less upon his compositions . His verses are harmonious , natural , and pleasing , pregnant with interesting truths and moral reflections . They are generally per- vaded by that soft spirit of ...
... rest , and we shall therefore dwell less upon his compositions . His verses are harmonious , natural , and pleasing , pregnant with interesting truths and moral reflections . They are generally per- vaded by that soft spirit of ...
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Page 288 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 288 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 169 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Page 120 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 294 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 298 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 66 - For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.
Page 291 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 249 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 168 - Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.