The Retrospective Review, Bind 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... opinion and party questions . Under these circumstances , it would rather be a matter of surprise , if cultivated minds , disgusted with faction , fanaticism , and court - intrigues , had not sought shelter within those precincts where ...
... opinion and party questions . Under these circumstances , it would rather be a matter of surprise , if cultivated minds , disgusted with faction , fanaticism , and court - intrigues , had not sought shelter within those precincts where ...
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... opinion of our own , we shall give that of one better calculated , from close similarity of pursuits , to speak of its merits . " Our countryman , the excellent Mr. Ray , ( says the Rev. Gilbert White , of Selborne , p . 244 , vol . i ...
... opinion of our own , we shall give that of one better calculated , from close similarity of pursuits , to speak of its merits . " Our countryman , the excellent Mr. Ray , ( says the Rev. Gilbert White , of Selborne , p . 244 , vol . i ...
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... opinion : " If you have not yet determined what those shells upon old planks and ships ( which antiquity fancied to be young goos- lings ) are , give me leave to propound one conjecture among many , viz . that they are the spawn of ...
... opinion : " If you have not yet determined what those shells upon old planks and ships ( which antiquity fancied to be young goos- lings ) are , give me leave to propound one conjecture among many , viz . that they are the spawn of ...
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... opinion expressed with respect to the widgeon and sheldin , another species of duck . " I have put up some hollow bones which Mr. Yarrel , of Bury Street , St. James's Street , has , indeed , devoted much time to this interesting part ...
... opinion expressed with respect to the widgeon and sheldin , another species of duck . " I have put up some hollow bones which Mr. Yarrel , of Bury Street , St. James's Street , has , indeed , devoted much time to this interesting part ...
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... opinion ; ) that the blood was the same in every quality with that of fishes , as also the fat , which ( as they falsely affirm ) will not fix , dry , or grow hard , but always remains in an oily consistence . Upon these and other rea ...
... opinion ; ) that the blood was the same in every quality with that of fishes , as also the fat , which ( as they falsely affirm ) will not fix , dry , or grow hard , but always remains in an oily consistence . Upon these and other rea ...
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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.