The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 175Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1844 - English essays |
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... English poets . " * When it is our purpose to estimate an author's works , we take them at their positive value , abstracted from all con- siderations of the times and circumstances in which he lived , and the degree of good or ill ...
... English poets . " * When it is our purpose to estimate an author's works , we take them at their positive value , abstracted from all con- siderations of the times and circumstances in which he lived , and the degree of good or ill ...
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... English poetry from having been the first to make To show the rise of our national poetry from its source in Saxon times , and how little of it , previous to Chaucer , deserved the name , we transcribe a short passage from the learned ...
... English poetry from having been the first to make To show the rise of our national poetry from its source in Saxon times , and how little of it , previous to Chaucer , deserved the name , we transcribe a short passage from the learned ...
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... English fable . The Clerk of Oxenford's Tale from Boccaccio through Petrarch's version . Lydgate , in his Temple of Glas , seems to speak as if he had seen a completed copy of the Squire's Tale . " And how her brother so often helpe was ...
... English fable . The Clerk of Oxenford's Tale from Boccaccio through Petrarch's version . Lydgate , in his Temple of Glas , seems to speak as if he had seen a completed copy of the Squire's Tale . " And how her brother so often helpe was ...
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... English translation , but a modern bard , the Rev. John Jones of Bala , ( better known by the local appellation of Ieuan Tegid , t ) commenced one about twenty years ago , though I doubt his having completed it , as he has been since ...
... English translation , but a modern bard , the Rev. John Jones of Bala , ( better known by the local appellation of Ieuan Tegid , t ) commenced one about twenty years ago , though I doubt his having completed it , as he has been since ...
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... English Ecclesi- astical Courts ; confining myself , how- ever , to the more striking and curious features exhibited by them , either in their origin or in their subsequent ex- tension and developement . The es- tablishment of these ...
... English Ecclesi- astical Courts ; confining myself , how- ever , to the more striking and curious features exhibited by them , either in their origin or in their subsequent ex- tension and developement . The es- tablishment of these ...
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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.
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