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... London , an innovation which se- veral authors complain of , and which seems by no means to have met with Queen Elizabeth's approval . This we learn from a letter in " Lodge's Illustrations of English History . " It is written by ...
... London , an innovation which se- veral authors complain of , and which seems by no means to have met with Queen Elizabeth's approval . This we learn from a letter in " Lodge's Illustrations of English History . " It is written by ...
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... London to the country , we had been travelling round the sun at the rate of fifty eight thousand miles every hour , and , in the rotatory motion of the earth upon its own axis , had completed an additional five hundred and eighty miles ...
... London to the country , we had been travelling round the sun at the rate of fifty eight thousand miles every hour , and , in the rotatory motion of the earth upon its own axis , had completed an additional five hundred and eighty miles ...
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... LONDON --- Printed and Published by I. Waltis , Camden Town ; and also Published by C. Harris Dow Street , Covent Garden , by whom Communications for the Editor are received . No. 106 . OR , VOL . III . MR THE NIC - NAC .
... LONDON --- Printed and Published by I. Waltis , Camden Town ; and also Published by C. Harris Dow Street , Covent Garden , by whom Communications for the Editor are received . No. 106 . OR , VOL . III . MR THE NIC - NAC .
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... LONDON WALL . No. 106 . OR , VOL . III . MR . EDITOR , -If the subjoined little Romance from the " German Popular and Traditional Literature " is admissable into your work , I am extremely happy in forwarding it to Yours , respectfully ...
... LONDON WALL . No. 106 . OR , VOL . III . MR . EDITOR , -If the subjoined little Romance from the " German Popular and Traditional Literature " is admissable into your work , I am extremely happy in forwarding it to Yours , respectfully ...
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... LONDON PORTER . Mr. EDITOR , -As an article under this head , recently made its appear- ance in a Weekly Periodical , now defunct ( the Hive , No. 64 , ) I subjoin the following , from which the above- mentioned was evidently altered ...
... LONDON PORTER . Mr. EDITOR , -As an article under this head , recently made its appear- ance in a Weekly Periodical , now defunct ( the Hive , No. 64 , ) I subjoin the following , from which the above- mentioned was evidently altered ...
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Página 48 - There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Página 7 - ... or else by blind harpers, or such like taverne Minstrels, that give a. fit of mirth for a groat, . . . their matter being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of Sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historical rimes, made purposely for recreation of the common people at Christmasse dinners and brideales, and in tavernes and alehouses, and such other places of base resorte.
Página 112 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Página 98 - Wycherley from that instant entertained hopes. He did not fail waiting on her the next morning : and with a very melancholy tone begged to know, how it was possible for him to have so much disobliged her Grace? They were very good friends from that time; yet, after all, what did he get by her?
Página 3 - Tower, pretending only curiosity of seeing the regalia there, when, stabbing the keeper, though not mortally, he boldly went away with it through all the guards, taken only by the accident of his horse falling down. How he came to be pardoned, and even received into favour, not only after this, but several other exploits almost as daring both in Ireland and here, I could never come to understand. Some believed he became a spy of several parties, being well with the sectaries and enthusiasts, and...
Página 129 - Master Field, the player, riding up Fleet-street a great ' pace, a gentleman called him, and asked him what play was played ' that day ? He (being angry to be stayed upon so frivolous a demand) * answered, that he might see what play was to be played upon every