The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian MagazineHenry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1827 |
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... called " The old Wives Tale , " Lond . 1595 , which is remarkable as being supposed by Reid to have suggested to Milton the plan of Comus . In Peele's play , Anticke , Frolicke , and Fantasticke , three adventurers , are benighted in a ...
... called " The old Wives Tale , " Lond . 1595 , which is remarkable as being supposed by Reid to have suggested to Milton the plan of Comus . In Peele's play , Anticke , Frolicke , and Fantasticke , three adventurers , are benighted in a ...
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... called " The Dreg Song " and may be quoted to illustrate the first verse of Elspeth's ballad . " The oysters are a gentle kin , They winna tak unless you sing . " Oysters appear to have preserved their comparative gentility to a late ...
... called " The Dreg Song " and may be quoted to illustrate the first verse of Elspeth's ballad . " The oysters are a gentle kin , They winna tak unless you sing . " Oysters appear to have preserved their comparative gentility to a late ...
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... called ' Ane Compen- dious Boke of Godlie Songs , " " & c . Edinb . 1765 , 12mo . " These Godlie Songs , " says Pinkerton , " Ancient Scotish Poems , " p . 495 , are written to the tunes of profane ballads , common in 1597 , when the ...
... called ' Ane Compen- dious Boke of Godlie Songs , " " & c . Edinb . 1765 , 12mo . " These Godlie Songs , " says Pinkerton , " Ancient Scotish Poems , " p . 495 , are written to the tunes of profane ballads , common in 1597 , when the ...
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... called the sqyr of lowe degre . 999 By this prompt courage Quentin in a great measure avoids the reproach urged against his predecessors , in the " Letters on the Author of Waverley : " see letter viii . p . 197 , et seq . of the second ...
... called the sqyr of lowe degre . 999 By this prompt courage Quentin in a great measure avoids the reproach urged against his predecessors , in the " Letters on the Author of Waverley : " see letter viii . p . 197 , et seq . of the second ...
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... called Monsieur William de Ville , alias by the French , le Sauvage . " Comines , p . 102. In that disturbance , however , one of the bishop's most confidential domestics was brutally butchered before the face of his master , while the ...
... called Monsieur William de Ville , alias by the French , le Sauvage . " Comines , p . 102. In that disturbance , however , one of the bishop's most confidential domestics was brutally butchered before the face of his master , while the ...
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Page 29 - Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves ; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey ; Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.
Page 370 - Well then ; I now do plainly see, This busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they, methinks, deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...
Page 374 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess...
Page 448 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of 'His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 376 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink and dance and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee, All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plow Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 376 - Prophet of the ripen'd year ! Thee Phoebus loves, and does inspire ; Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee, of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Page 523 - Atkinson; such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office...
Page 352 - As far as my memory can return back into my past life, before I knew or was capable of guessing what the world, or glories, or business of it were, the natural affections of my soul gave me a secret bent of aversion from them...
Page 358 - Gideon's miracle* was shown ; " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
Page 376 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice.