Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volumen34James Fraser, 1846 |
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... learned references to every writer that went before him ; while Shakspeare ex- periences the inglorious fate of his own stout gentleman at Windsor , and is positively stifled between the heaps of very inodorous old clothes , which his ...
... learned references to every writer that went before him ; while Shakspeare ex- periences the inglorious fate of his own stout gentleman at Windsor , and is positively stifled between the heaps of very inodorous old clothes , which his ...
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... learned . " States have been thus conquered from abroad before they gave any signs of internal decay , even in the midst of prosperity , and in the period of their greatest ardour for national objects . Athens , in the height of her ...
... learned . " States have been thus conquered from abroad before they gave any signs of internal decay , even in the midst of prosperity , and in the period of their greatest ardour for national objects . Athens , in the height of her ...
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... learned research presents to us of the arts , sciences , and manners of those mighty cities which have long ago passed into oblivion . The vapour is only dispersed in a few places , the curtain is only half drawn up ; one to gather ...
... learned research presents to us of the arts , sciences , and manners of those mighty cities which have long ago passed into oblivion . The vapour is only dispersed in a few places , the curtain is only half drawn up ; one to gather ...
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... learned to imitate them . Schlegel traces the decay of the Greek states , and their final subjuga- tion by Rome , to the corruption of morals and teaching which immedi- ately succeeded the decline of a purer philosophy , and the ...
... learned to imitate them . Schlegel traces the decay of the Greek states , and their final subjuga- tion by Rome , to the corruption of morals and teaching which immedi- ately succeeded the decline of a purer philosophy , and the ...
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... learned all they could teach her ; and I thought that was enough for one of her station , and was happy again to have her with me , singing about the house , and doing all that her poor mother had done before her , and , as I fancied ...
... learned all they could teach her ; and I thought that was enough for one of her station , and was happy again to have her with me , singing about the house , and doing all that her poor mother had done before her , and , as I fancied ...
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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.