The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 175Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1844 - English essays |
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... mean time the Camden Society has undertaken the publication of the ancient wills which remain in the archiepiscopal registers ... means may most effectu- ally be used to prevent the ravages of the insect commonly known as the book- worm ...
... mean time the Camden Society has undertaken the publication of the ancient wills which remain in the archiepiscopal registers ... means may most effectu- ally be used to prevent the ravages of the insect commonly known as the book- worm ...
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... means a rank above that of merchant , or citizen , we see no reason to admit the assertion ; apparently he was in such a rank of life as enabled him to have the advantages of an education which unfolded and improved his talents . The ...
... means a rank above that of merchant , or citizen , we see no reason to admit the assertion ; apparently he was in such a rank of life as enabled him to have the advantages of an education which unfolded and improved his talents . The ...
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... means any thing to the purpose , it is , that when Chaucer was walking in Friday Street , looking at the signs , the money in his purse was not exactly what an honest man could call his own . In May 1388 , the grants of his pensions of ...
... means any thing to the purpose , it is , that when Chaucer was walking in Friday Street , looking at the signs , the money in his purse was not exactly what an honest man could call his own . In May 1388 , the grants of his pensions of ...
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... were not the element of his mind . In this respect he can by no means enter the list with Spenser . " Life , i . 377 . fixed to this memoir . It was painted from memory 18 [ Jan. Sir H. Nicolas's Life of Geoffrey Chaucer .
... were not the element of his mind . In this respect he can by no means enter the list with Spenser . " Life , i . 377 . fixed to this memoir . It was painted from memory 18 [ Jan. Sir H. Nicolas's Life of Geoffrey Chaucer .
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... Mean- while M. Minier , the person who had clandestinely purchased the shrine , hastened with it to Paris , asking ... means Byzantine . - Note of the Secretary of the Committee . E Robert Barwick , gent.— . John Barwick , esq . 1844 ...
... Mean- while M. Minier , the person who had clandestinely purchased the shrine , hastened with it to Paris , asking ... means Byzantine . - Note of the Secretary of the Committee . E Robert Barwick , gent.— . John Barwick , esq . 1844 ...
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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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