Retrospective Review, Volume 14Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... hath a long time perplexed me , and that is , whether all fish cast all their spawn at once ; I mean in one year , or only part of it , retaining part for future partuses . That herrings cast all , I am confident , finding none in ...
... hath a long time perplexed me , and that is , whether all fish cast all their spawn at once ; I mean in one year , or only part of it , retaining part for future partuses . That herrings cast all , I am confident , finding none in ...
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... hath a pale yellow spot , or streak , on each side its neck , though not encompassing it . 2. Vipera , or the adder . 3. Cæcilia , the blind worm , or slow worm . All these kinds are plentiful in my own fields . " We impute not as a ...
... hath a pale yellow spot , or streak , on each side its neck , though not encompassing it . 2. Vipera , or the adder . 3. Cæcilia , the blind worm , or slow worm . All these kinds are plentiful in my own fields . " We impute not as a ...
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... hath in- structed this child , within the last three quarters of a year , in the reading of the Latin , Greek , and Hebrew languages , which he can read almost as well as English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and ...
... hath in- structed this child , within the last three quarters of a year , in the reading of the Latin , Greek , and Hebrew languages , which he can read almost as well as English ; and that tongue he could read at fourteen years and ...
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... hath not any peculiar or proper kinde of fight , as hath the dog , beare , or bull , but only a ravenous kinde of surprizing for prey . The two first dogs dyed within a few dayes , but the last dog was well recovered of all his hurts ...
... hath not any peculiar or proper kinde of fight , as hath the dog , beare , or bull , but only a ravenous kinde of surprizing for prey . The two first dogs dyed within a few dayes , but the last dog was well recovered of all his hurts ...
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... hath told mee and others . This Southall was the great Priest Catcher , and Capt . Lane's , and Mr. Vernon's true cavalier in the plotting time . That afternoon my Lord sent word he would send Colonel Lane with an horse for the king ...
... hath told mee and others . This Southall was the great Priest Catcher , and Capt . Lane's , and Mr. Vernon's true cavalier in the plotting time . That afternoon my Lord sent word he would send Colonel Lane with an horse for the king ...
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Page 297 - This is mentioned to vindicate Tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes ; happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Page 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 105 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 316 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 288 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 297 - Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse.
Page 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 297 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 326 - Fate could not choose a more malicious hour! What greater curse could envious Fortune give, Than just to die, when I began to live! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave! Never, O never more to see the sun! Still dark, in a damp vault, and still alone!
Page 283 - Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.