The Retrospective Review, Volume 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... learned astonished with his profici- ency , and the ladies enraptured with his grace , and communica- ting , wherever he went , the love and spirit of gladness - he was , and well deserved to be , the idol of the age he lived in . He ...
... learned astonished with his profici- ency , and the ladies enraptured with his grace , and communica- ting , wherever he went , the love and spirit of gladness - he was , and well deserved to be , the idol of the age he lived in . He ...
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... learned of her needle : which with so pretty a manner made his careers to and fro thorow the cloth , as if the needle it selfe would have beene loth to have gone fromward such a mistresse , but that it hoped to return thitherward very ...
... learned of her needle : which with so pretty a manner made his careers to and fro thorow the cloth , as if the needle it selfe would have beene loth to have gone fromward such a mistresse , but that it hoped to return thitherward very ...
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... learned shrunk dismayed and confounded . In the com- positions of Rochester , what foundation can we find for that reputed predominancy of wit which all his contemporaries al- lowed him , and which seemed almost to excuse his profligacy ...
... learned shrunk dismayed and confounded . In the com- positions of Rochester , what foundation can we find for that reputed predominancy of wit which all his contemporaries al- lowed him , and which seemed almost to excuse his profligacy ...
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... learned Elias Ashmole , placed over his remains " a fair black marble stone , which cost him six pounds , four shillings , and sixpence . " The number and extent of our extracts preclude our dwelling at any length on the merits or ...
... learned Elias Ashmole , placed over his remains " a fair black marble stone , which cost him six pounds , four shillings , and sixpence . " The number and extent of our extracts preclude our dwelling at any length on the merits or ...
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... learned Erasmus , in his letter to King Henry the 8th , calls him , " Britannicarum Literarum lumen et decus . " In this in- terlude the Devil is one of the principal dramatis personæ , and the audience ( consisting of " the king and ...
... learned Erasmus , in his letter to King Henry the 8th , calls him , " Britannicarum Literarum lumen et decus . " In this in- terlude the Devil is one of the principal dramatis personæ , and the audience ( consisting of " the king and ...
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Page 196 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Page 84 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 69 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Page 339 - I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.
Page 196 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down : and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair ! Thek.
Page 96 - Her breath is her own, which scents all the year long of June, like a new-made haycock. She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity ; and when winter evenings fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune.
Page 94 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Page 345 - Like a broad table did itselfe dispred, For Love his loftie triumphes to engrave, And write the battailes of his great godhed: All good and honour might therein be red ; For there their dwelling was.
Page 78 - I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy...
Page 213 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek.