New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 17Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1826 |
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... honour , consented to call the meeting , and take the chair . The Rotunda was fixed upon as the most conve- nient place for assembling - and it had the farther attraction of being , from its associations with the memory of the old ...
... honour , consented to call the meeting , and take the chair . The Rotunda was fixed upon as the most conve- nient place for assembling - and it had the farther attraction of being , from its associations with the memory of the old ...
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... honours . In the same year he published a Treatise of considerable length upon the manufactures of Ireland . The latter I have never seen , but I have heard an anecdote regarding it which may be mentioned as illustrative of the purity ...
... honours . In the same year he published a Treatise of considerable length upon the manufactures of Ireland . The latter I have never seen , but I have heard an anecdote regarding it which may be mentioned as illustrative of the purity ...
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... honour of the Navy , designed for the Duke of Clarence , which I sent to him by another sort of vehicle - the little hand of his Royal Highness's eldest son . In 1798 Lieut . - col . George Fitz - Clarence was a fine , promising little ...
... honour of the Navy , designed for the Duke of Clarence , which I sent to him by another sort of vehicle - the little hand of his Royal Highness's eldest son . In 1798 Lieut . - col . George Fitz - Clarence was a fine , promising little ...
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... honours thick upon you . " His words were true enough , and no frost since came to nip them ; for the play was acted twenty nights , which for a short summer - season is a great run . Lewis went to see it , and remarked to some of his ...
... honours thick upon you . " His words were true enough , and no frost since came to nip them ; for the play was acted twenty nights , which for a short summer - season is a great run . Lewis went to see it , and remarked to some of his ...
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... honoured . On Sunday the 22d of January , 1826 , my humble cabin was cheered by the presence of the Lord Bishop of Chichester , who , with the joy of benevolence , came to inform me of an accumulation of honour from the King , and a ...
... honoured . On Sunday the 22d of January , 1826 , my humble cabin was cheered by the presence of the Lord Bishop of Chichester , who , with the joy of benevolence , came to inform me of an accumulation of honour from the King , and a ...
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Page 177 - CLXXVII •Oh, that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements, in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted, can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot, Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot...
Page 352 - Therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which seldom faileth of the effect. Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Page 334 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Page 491 - It was remarkable, too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist. However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
Page 229 - He spake no dream, for as his words had end, Our Saviour lifting up his eyes, beheld In ample space, under the broadest shade, A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour...
Page 250 - Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually with coaches and chaises : barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window ; Richmond Hill and Ham walks bound my prospect ; but, thank God ! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Oueensberry.
Page 215 - HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 229 - With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, Gris-amber-steam'd ; all fish, from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drain'd Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
Page 268 - ... and his being zealous for toleration, together with his cold behaviour towards the clergy, gave them generally very ill impressions of him ; in his deportment towards all about him he seemed to make little distinction between the good and the bad, and those who served him...
Page 426 - Garth, Vanbrugh, and Congreve," said Pope, (and Tonson, the bookseller, who was sitting by, and knew them all well, agreed with him) " were the three most honesthearted, real good men, of the poetical members of the Kit-Kat Club.