The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 158Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1835 |
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... Poems Blount's Ancient Tenures ....... REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS : King Alfred's Version of Boëthius , 49. - Translations of Camoëns ' Luciad , 51 . Riddell's Legal and Historical Tracts , 53. - Illustrations of Moore's Irish Melodies ...
... Poems Blount's Ancient Tenures ....... REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS : King Alfred's Version of Boëthius , 49. - Translations of Camoëns ' Luciad , 51 . Riddell's Legal and Historical Tracts , 53. - Illustrations of Moore's Irish Melodies ...
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... poem of later date than the Iliad . That part of the last book , subsequent to the meeting of Laertes and Ulysses , seems different in style of expression and thought from the rest , and added by one who belonged to another age . for ...
... poem of later date than the Iliad . That part of the last book , subsequent to the meeting of Laertes and Ulysses , seems different in style of expression and thought from the rest , and added by one who belonged to another age . for ...
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... poets also were employed in putting the best prescriptions into metre , for their better recollection . Linus , Orpheus , and Musæus sang of that beneficent art , which prolongs life , allays pain , and along with health restores ...
... poets also were employed in putting the best prescriptions into metre , for their better recollection . Linus , Orpheus , and Musæus sang of that beneficent art , which prolongs life , allays pain , and along with health restores ...
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RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW . POEMS BY LUCIUS CARY , LORD FALKLAND . " See Falkland dies , the virtuous and the just . " THIS ... Poets , & c . for an account of Lord Falkland . Lloyd calls him- a knowing Statesman and a learned Scholar . " 6 + ...
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW . POEMS BY LUCIUS CARY , LORD FALKLAND . " See Falkland dies , the virtuous and the just . " THIS ... Poets , & c . for an account of Lord Falkland . Lloyd calls him- a knowing Statesman and a learned Scholar . " 6 + ...
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... Poems were never before collected ; that Walpole mentions only one of them ; and that the Elegy by Sir Francis Wortley , is not alluded to by him , or any other biographer whom we know . We shall first give- No. I. AN ECLOGUE ON THE ...
... Poems were never before collected ; that Walpole mentions only one of them ; and that the Elegy by Sir Francis Wortley , is not alluded to by him , or any other biographer whom we know . We shall first give- No. I. AN ECLOGUE ON THE ...
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Page 246 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 246 - When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night, When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white, When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd...
Page 359 - ... clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But, out, alack!
Page 246 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
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Page 246 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 247 - Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 246 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
Page 592 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 224 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.