Retrospective Review, Volume 12Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1825 - Bibliography |
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... former antiquaries , who have launched indiscriminate condemnation against pursuits differing from their own , and their conclusive dogma that estimates value by age , have conduced in no small degree to injure the very cause they ...
... former antiquaries , who have launched indiscriminate condemnation against pursuits differing from their own , and their conclusive dogma that estimates value by age , have conduced in no small degree to injure the very cause they ...
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... former , who , from ancient experience , may be sup- posed to be an adept in the science , endeavours to open to the latter , who is a mere tyro in the school , the mysteries of servitorship , and its necessary qualifications . The next ...
... former , who , from ancient experience , may be sup- posed to be an adept in the science , endeavours to open to the latter , who is a mere tyro in the school , the mysteries of servitorship , and its necessary qualifications . The next ...
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... former visit is said to have expended , in five days , the sum of five thousand pounds ; the king , probably wish- ing to cause the University little trouble or expense , remained in it at this time but two days , during which period ...
... former visit is said to have expended , in five days , the sum of five thousand pounds ; the king , probably wish- ing to cause the University little trouble or expense , remained in it at this time but two days , during which period ...
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... former fellow of Trinity College ; this copy contains the actors ' names , among which the author himself is one . The fable of the play is very obscure , and occasionally so decidedly contra bonos mores , that we may almost wish it ...
... former fellow of Trinity College ; this copy contains the actors ' names , among which the author himself is one . The fable of the play is very obscure , and occasionally so decidedly contra bonos mores , that we may almost wish it ...
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... former year , and it was printed in the latter year . The title is , Senile Odium , comedia Cantabrigia publicè Academicis recitata in Col- legio Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute . Autore P. Hausted . Lusimus innocui . Cantabrigia ...
... former year , and it was printed in the latter year . The title is , Senile Odium , comedia Cantabrigia publicè Academicis recitata in Col- legio Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute . Autore P. Hausted . Lusimus innocui . Cantabrigia ...
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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.