The Retrospective Review, Bind 14Charles and Henry 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 ...
Side 15
... 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 ...
Side 27
... 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 ...
Side 29
... 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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Side 316 - O 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...
Side 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.
Side 296 - Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them.
Side 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.
Side 304 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Side 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Side 297 - ... philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse. The apostle Paul himself thought it not unworthy to insert a verse of Euripides into the text of Holy Scripture, 1 Cor. xv. 33; and Pareeus commenting on the Revelation, divides the whole book as a tragedy, into acts distinguished each by a chorus of heavenly harpings and song between.
Side 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.
Side 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Side 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.