Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volumen34James Fraser, 1846 |
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... common ; the labourers must now be paid . In those days the stupendous edifices we see were the labour of slaves or of a conquered people . The result is , that no national undertaking is attempted except for the benefit of the ...
... common ; the labourers must now be paid . In those days the stupendous edifices we see were the labour of slaves or of a conquered people . The result is , that no national undertaking is attempted except for the benefit of the ...
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... common error of somewhat underrating the testimony of Herodotus to its refine- ment and progress . But , in reality , the remark of Dahlman is correct as to the extent and value of the in- formation furnished by the father of history ...
... common error of somewhat underrating the testimony of Herodotus to its refine- ment and progress . But , in reality , the remark of Dahlman is correct as to the extent and value of the in- formation furnished by the father of history ...
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... Common : take any section you choose out of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World into one of the shady streets of Whitechapel ; and see how one of the divine heads of Raffaelle will be received by the con- noisseurs of Drury Lane ...
... Common : take any section you choose out of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World into one of the shady streets of Whitechapel ; and see how one of the divine heads of Raffaelle will be received by the con- noisseurs of Drury Lane ...
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... common transactions of personal experience , scarcely any event is to be considered in the light of an oc- currence , original , unprepared , single , and unrelative ; or , to use a French word adopted by Bolingbroke , isolé . It is ...
... common transactions of personal experience , scarcely any event is to be considered in the light of an oc- currence , original , unprepared , single , and unrelative ; or , to use a French word adopted by Bolingbroke , isolé . It is ...
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... common , dotted here and there with fine old thorns , whose twisted trunks gave token of their antiquity . I am quite sure that not an urchin in the hamlet would have been re- negade enough to wrench a bough from any one of them ; the ...
... common , dotted here and there with fine old thorns , whose twisted trunks gave token of their antiquity . I am quite sure that not an urchin in the hamlet would have been re- negade enough to wrench a bough from any one of them ; the ...
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Página 395 - He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Página 176 - Court, commanding them neither to spare for any cost, expense, or travayle, to make such a triumphant banquet as they might not only wonder at it here, but also make a glorious report of it in their country, to the great honour of the king and his realm.
Página 244 - Ho, pretty Page with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear ! All your wish is woman to win : This is the way that boys begin : Wait till you come to Forty Year...
Página 244 - Ever a month was passed away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed. The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May pray and whisper, and we not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone.
Página 4 - It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level ; the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.
Página 74 - WHAT Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years ; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Página 487 - While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe th...
Página 405 - But the days of Shaftesbury were not destined to be passed in peaceful lucubrations. In 1676-7 he was imprisoned in the Tower with Buckingham for a breach of privilege of the House of Lords, and was confined there long after his fellow-prisoners had been released. He calls himself, in one of his letters at this time, " an infirm old man shut up in a winter's prison." And, indeed, his confinement was a most oppressive act. But he was henceforth the subject of plots, and the victim, a sturdy one nevertheless,...
Página 244 - Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.
Página 414 - I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his mind, and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them.