The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 175Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1844 - English essays |
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... England - What will destroy the Bookworm ? - Errors in Domestic Intelligence , Obituary , and in Mr. Wodderspoon's Suf- folk Churches ...... LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER . By Sir Harris Nicolas - POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER . By T ...
... England - What will destroy the Bookworm ? - Errors in Domestic Intelligence , Obituary , and in Mr. Wodderspoon's Suf- folk Churches ...... LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER . By Sir Harris Nicolas - POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER . By T ...
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... England before February 1379. In May 1382 he was appointed Comptroller of the Petty Customs in the Port of London ... England betrayed their trust ; that he experienced much distress during his banishment ; that he returned to England ...
... England before February 1379. In May 1382 he was appointed Comptroller of the Petty Customs in the Port of London ... England betrayed their trust ; that he experienced much distress during his banishment ; that he returned to England ...
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... England . To ac- count for Chaucer's dismissal from his employments in Dec. 1386 , Sir Harris reasonably conjectures that he became obnoxious to Thomas Duke of Gloucester and the other ministers , who had succeeded his patron the Duke ...
... England . To ac- count for Chaucer's dismissal from his employments in Dec. 1386 , Sir Harris reasonably conjectures that he became obnoxious to Thomas Duke of Gloucester and the other ministers , who had succeeded his patron the Duke ...
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... England was of considerably later date than in almost any other state of Europe . On the continent they had been in active operation ever since the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger , to whom must be ascribed their first le ...
... England was of considerably later date than in almost any other state of Europe . On the continent they had been in active operation ever since the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger , to whom must be ascribed their first le ...
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... England , and they had already excited the jealousy and awakened the late re- pentance of the secular authorities , with whose jurisdiction they on many occasions clashed and even suc- cessfully competed . In the words of * Manifesta ...
... England , and they had already excited the jealousy and awakened the late re- pentance of the secular authorities , with whose jurisdiction they on many occasions clashed and even suc- cessfully competed . In the words of * Manifesta ...
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Page 492 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 569 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 567 - ... if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 567 - In the summer of the year 1797 the author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effect of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment he was reading the following sentence, or words of the'' same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimage...
Page 558 - I have attempted to practise, and, where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to sense, with least violence. But my first labour is, always to turn the old text on every side, and try if there be any interstice, through which light can find its way; nor would Huetius himself condemn me, as refusing the trouble of research, for the ambition of alteration.
Page 452 - Hushed were his Gertrude's lips ! but still their bland And beautiful expression seemed to melt With love that could not die ! and still his hand She presses to the heart no more that felt. Ah, heart ! where once each fond affection dwelt, And features yet that spoke a soul more fair.
Page 567 - On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.
Page 560 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 569 - But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches ; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Page 61 - Glimpses of Nature ; And Objects of Interest described during a Visit to the Isle of Wight. Designed to assist and encourage Young Persons in forming habits of observation. By Mrs. LOUDON. Second Edition, enlarged. With Forty-one Illustrations. 3s. 6d. cloth. "We could not recommend a more valuable little volume. It is full of information, conveyed in the most agreeable manner."— Literary Gazette.