The Retrospective Review.., Volumen8Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
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... reader's appetite for the original and in- valuable fountains of historical information , is a part of our duty , which , we conceive , cannot be more effectually dis- charged than by dispensing such portions from the living well itself ...
... reader's appetite for the original and in- valuable fountains of historical information , is a part of our duty , which , we conceive , cannot be more effectually dis- charged than by dispensing such portions from the living well itself ...
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... reader's patience in so unprofitable a labour as that of defining exactly the shades of his moral and political turpitude , had we not been tempted to proceed by the inexhaustible fund of amusement which is supplied by the anecdotic ...
... reader's patience in so unprofitable a labour as that of defining exactly the shades of his moral and political turpitude , had we not been tempted to proceed by the inexhaustible fund of amusement which is supplied by the anecdotic ...
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... reader's mercy , to be judged as it deserves . To the states of Holland , and the family of the Prince of Orange , he was considerably indebted . The one had entertained him with great magnificence , at a vast charge , during his stay ...
... reader's mercy , to be judged as it deserves . To the states of Holland , and the family of the Prince of Orange , he was considerably indebted . The one had entertained him with great magnificence , at a vast charge , during his stay ...
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... all this , we certainly were not prepared to expect a conclusion like that , to which the author * Examen , p . 550 . + Ret . Rev. vol . ii . p . 249 . of the Examen invites his readers : - " I Character and Anecdotes of Charles II . 21.
... all this , we certainly were not prepared to expect a conclusion like that , to which the author * Examen , p . 550 . + Ret . Rev. vol . ii . p . 249 . of the Examen invites his readers : - " I Character and Anecdotes of Charles II . 21.
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Henry Southern. of the Examen invites his readers : - " I think I may , without injury to any age affirm , that , in no time since William the Conqueror , have the laws been executed , in all the courts of royal jurisdiction , with more ...
Henry Southern. of the Examen invites his readers : - " I think I may , without injury to any age affirm , that , in no time since William the Conqueror , have the laws been executed , in all the courts of royal jurisdiction , with more ...
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Página 247 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 312 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Página 56 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 36 - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Página 247 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Página 39 - Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away. But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Página 43 - And let ourselves benight our happiest day; We ask'd none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go; Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee.
Página 37 - I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? . . 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which...
Página 37 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 36 - Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of the earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 Those things which elemented it.