The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 157Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1835 |
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... beautiful and refined and touching poetry in the English language . We hope some one else was meant than the honoured bard of Bremhill . How could all Miss More's learned friends , critics , bishops , and lexicographers , let her use ...
... beautiful and refined and touching poetry in the English language . We hope some one else was meant than the honoured bard of Bremhill . How could all Miss More's learned friends , critics , bishops , and lexicographers , let her use ...
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... beautiful writing , as when she talks of the thunder in 1639 heard rattling afar off , and flashes penetrating the most obscure woods , forerunners of the storm which next year was more apparent , and of the mischief " when hands which ...
... beautiful writing , as when she talks of the thunder in 1639 heard rattling afar off , and flashes penetrating the most obscure woods , forerunners of the storm which next year was more apparent , and of the mischief " when hands which ...
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... Beautiful effect of the setting sun pouring its bright efful- gence on the town , relieved by the azure hills , and mountain - like clouds . Yet I am still of a fixed opinion , that in engravings , drawings , and paint- ings , the sky ...
... Beautiful effect of the setting sun pouring its bright efful- gence on the town , relieved by the azure hills , and mountain - like clouds . Yet I am still of a fixed opinion , that in engravings , drawings , and paint- ings , the sky ...
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... beautiful romance of La Vio- lette , written in about 1225 by Gibert de Montreuil , is interesting to Englishmen , as being the grand representative of that series of romances and tales which con- tained the story that afterwards ...
... beautiful romance of La Vio- lette , written in about 1225 by Gibert de Montreuil , is interesting to Englishmen , as being the grand representative of that series of romances and tales which con- tained the story that afterwards ...
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... beautiful specimen of typography , and is splendidly adorned with seven admirable fac - similes of the illuminations of the prose Roman de la Violette , besides coloured fac - similes of the two MSS . of the poem . The other of the two ...
... beautiful specimen of typography , and is splendidly adorned with seven admirable fac - similes of the illuminations of the prose Roman de la Violette , besides coloured fac - similes of the two MSS . of the poem . The other of the two ...
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Page 527 - MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Page 285 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 285 - All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.
Page 356 - ... active and public life with the attainment of that exact and various learning which is generally the portion only of the recluse student. He was distinguished as an advocate and a magistrate, and he composed the most valuable works on the law of his own country ; he was almost equally celebrated as an historian, a scholar, a poet, and a divine ; — a disinterested statesman, a philosophical lawyer, a patriot who united moderation with firmness, and a theologian who was taught candour by his...
Page 21 - Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave man can do.
Page 357 - ... his character; and in the midst of all the hard trials and galling provocations of a turbulent political life, he never once deserted his friends when they were unfortunate, nor insulted his enemies when they were weak. In times of the most furious civil and religious faction he preserved his name unspotted, and he knew how to reconcile fidelity to his own party, with moderation towards his opponents.
Page 285 - Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.
Page 560 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 285 - Are just set out to meet the sea. The year's departing beauty hides Of wintry storms the sullen threat; But in thy sternest frown abides A look of kindly promise yet. Thou bring'st the hope of those calm skies. And that soft time of sunny showers, When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours.