The Retrospective Review, Bind 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 |
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Side 12
... horse on record was capable of going for a short distance at the rate of a mile per minute ; and , yet what is this to the motion of a swallow , or even to many of the short - winged , heavy - bodied , duck tribe ; for instance , the ...
... horse on record was capable of going for a short distance at the rate of a mile per minute ; and , yet what is this to the motion of a swallow , or even to many of the short - winged , heavy - bodied , duck tribe ; for instance , the ...
Side 21
... horse - eye bean , and the ash - coloured nickar , or bonduch . There is , also , a fourth sent me thence , which is , I think , avellana quadrifida ; where its natural place is , I know not ; but the others , you may find their ...
... horse - eye bean , and the ash - coloured nickar , or bonduch . There is , also , a fourth sent me thence , which is , I think , avellana quadrifida ; where its natural place is , I know not ; but the others , you may find their ...
Side 27
... horse dung with saffron in ale , ) under similar circumstances : we are , however , inclined to agree with Mr. Ray , who adds , " I believe any other medicine ( of which , for the disease , there are good store , ) if I had been ...
... horse dung with saffron in ale , ) under similar circumstances : we are , however , inclined to agree with Mr. Ray , who adds , " I believe any other medicine ( of which , for the disease , there are good store , ) if I had been ...
Side 41
... horse to tame ; which he did , managing him with such rigour , that the horse grew so tired and tamed , that he fell down dead under him ; this being done , he asked his majesty if he had any more wild horses to tame . The emperor ...
... horse to tame ; which he did , managing him with such rigour , that the horse grew so tired and tamed , that he fell down dead under him ; this being done , he asked his majesty if he had any more wild horses to tame . The emperor ...
Side 51
... horses , arms , and ammunition , they have or can procure , at Pitch- croft , near the city , on Tuesday next , being the 26th of this instant month , where ourself will be present that day ( and also the next , in case those of the ...
... horses , arms , and ammunition , they have or can procure , at Pitch- croft , near the city , on Tuesday next , being the 26th of this instant month , where ourself will be present that day ( and also the next , in case those of the ...
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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.