The Retrospective Review, Volume 12Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1825 - Books |
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... say better things than they know , and write more than they read , furnish congenial food for this numerous class , who are either unwilling or unable to submit to the laws which justly impose on man the labour of penetrating into the ...
... say better things than they know , and write more than they read , furnish congenial food for this numerous class , who are either unwilling or unable to submit to the laws which justly impose on man the labour of penetrating into the ...
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... ( says Mr. Burke ) is no trivial thing to those who wish to study human nature , in all shapes and positions . It is of all things the most instructive , to see , not only the reflections of manners , and characters of several periods ...
... ( says Mr. Burke ) is no trivial thing to those who wish to study human nature , in all shapes and positions . It is of all things the most instructive , to see , not only the reflections of manners , and characters of several periods ...
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... Lord , you played once in the University , you say ? Pol . That did I , my Lord ; and was accounted a good actor . * See Masters's Hist . of Corpus Christi Coll . p . 5 . Haml . And what did you enact ? Pol . University of Cambridge .
... Lord , you played once in the University , you say ? Pol . That did I , my Lord ; and was accounted a good actor . * See Masters's Hist . of Corpus Christi Coll . p . 5 . Haml . And what did you enact ? Pol . University of Cambridge .
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... says he was a Cambridge man , but see Athen . Oxon . edit . Bliss , Fasti , p . i . pp . 239 , 386 , 450 , 456 ; and Atalanta , comadia , written by Phillip Parsons , 1612 , and dedicated to Laud : it exists in the Harleian Collection ...
... says he was a Cambridge man , but see Athen . Oxon . edit . Bliss , Fasti , p . i . pp . 239 , 386 , 450 , 456 ; and Atalanta , comadia , written by Phillip Parsons , 1612 , and dedicated to Laud : it exists in the Harleian Collection ...
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... says , these plays being commonly acted on Sundays , and other festivals , the churches were forsaken , and the play - houses thronged . The license granted by the queen , in 1574 , to the celebrated actor , James Burbage , ( whose ...
... says , these plays being commonly acted on Sundays , and other festivals , the churches were forsaken , and the play - houses thronged . The license granted by the queen , in 1574 , to the celebrated actor , James Burbage , ( whose ...
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Page 81 - Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past ; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy Name ; Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 99 - I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me! I am myself alone.
Page 84 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Page 160 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 150 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 164 - And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrailed curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.
Page 82 - GLORY be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.
Page 18 - Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year, by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance.
Page 281 - Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art...
Page 73 - Inde furor vulgo, quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, quum solos credat habendos Esse Deos, quos ipse colit.