The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, Volume 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... important inferences . We find from the Tatler that the most prominent extravagance in female apparel in 1709 was the hoop - petticoat , which seems then to have attained its utmost magnitude . A very humorous account is gi- ven in the ...
... important inferences . We find from the Tatler that the most prominent extravagance in female apparel in 1709 was the hoop - petticoat , which seems then to have attained its utmost magnitude . A very humorous account is gi- ven in the ...
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... important concerns . all Congreve's plays , songs are introduced , but the performers are either the men , or professed musicians . Perhaps no one change in the manners of genteel life is so remarkable as the very great conse- quence ...
... important concerns . all Congreve's plays , songs are introduced , but the performers are either the men , or professed musicians . Perhaps no one change in the manners of genteel life is so remarkable as the very great conse- quence ...
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... important alteration . That disuse dates considerably later than the period we are treating of , and the sword was the gentleman's appendage within the memory of many of that class now living . It is singular that the physicians were ...
... important alteration . That disuse dates considerably later than the period we are treating of , and the sword was the gentleman's appendage within the memory of many of that class now living . It is singular that the physicians were ...
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... important task of keeping the banks in repair ( provincially termed bankers ) are as mighty to drink as to work . The natives in general are a stout broad - set race , many of them with black hair and dark complexions . The population ...
... important task of keeping the banks in repair ( provincially termed bankers ) are as mighty to drink as to work . The natives in general are a stout broad - set race , many of them with black hair and dark complexions . The population ...
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... important point of police , -should subsist in so enlightened a country . When the awful conse- quences of an indissoluble union between two persons who are thence forth to depend on each other for almost every thing that renders life ...
... important point of police , -should subsist in so enlightened a country . When the awful conse- quences of an indissoluble union between two persons who are thence forth to depend on each other for almost every thing that renders life ...
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Page 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
Page 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Page 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Page 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Page 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
Page 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Page 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.