Retrospective Review, Volume 12Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1825 - Bibliography |
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... fairs , by the itinerant minstrels , whom the merchants carried with them for the purpose of attracting customers . It is not the province of this article to enter into the com- parative degree of antiquity that the English Stage ...
... fairs , by the itinerant minstrels , whom the merchants carried with them for the purpose of attracting customers . It is not the province of this article to enter into the com- parative degree of antiquity that the English Stage ...
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... Haml . Why ! one fair daughter , and no more ; The which he loved passing well . " Upon Saturday , the fifth of August , 1564 , Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge : after having been welcomed by a notable University of Cambridge .
... Haml . Why ! one fair daughter , and no more ; The which he loved passing well . " Upon Saturday , the fifth of August , 1564 , Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge : after having been welcomed by a notable University of Cambridge .
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... Fair . Cowley 1650 Smart ...... Trinity 1641 Pembroke 1747 The Retirne from Parnassus , or Scourge of Simony , * was acted by the students of St. John's , in 1606 : of its author we know nothing more than that he was certainly a poet ...
... Fair . Cowley 1650 Smart ...... Trinity 1641 Pembroke 1747 The Retirne from Parnassus , or Scourge of Simony , * was acted by the students of St. John's , in 1606 : of its author we know nothing more than that he was certainly a poet ...
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... Fair was represented at Pembroke College . Cowley's Guardian was the last play following its precursors in regular order , and according to established custom , and may , therefore , be considered the last that was publicly represented ...
... Fair was represented at Pembroke College . Cowley's Guardian was the last play following its precursors in regular order , and according to established custom , and may , therefore , be considered the last that was publicly represented ...
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... fair trial ; for on the one hand , our Latin rhymers have generally , if not universally , written as if the Roman pronunciation was precisely the same with the modern ; and on the other , later writers at least have substituted modern ...
... fair trial ; for on the one hand , our Latin rhymers have generally , if not universally , written as if the Roman pronunciation was precisely the same with the modern ; and on the other , later writers at least have substituted modern ...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 247 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 248 - Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace ; and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.