The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... observations and reflections on everything intention , there is not only a tradition of one said or did , and censure it to be either his having entered himself at Gray's Inn , well or ill ; " and , wherever Aubrey got his but also the ...
... observations and reflections on everything intention , there is not only a tradition of one said or did , and censure it to be either his having entered himself at Gray's Inn , well or ill ; " and , wherever Aubrey got his but also the ...
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... observing them , he must have " taken notes " rarely . Nor was it strange that a man of his extraordinary natural wit ... observations in black and white . Beginning , therefore , perhaps , with some such doggrel ballad against Cromwell ...
... observing them , he must have " taken notes " rarely . Nor was it strange that a man of his extraordinary natural wit ... observations in black and white . Beginning , therefore , perhaps , with some such doggrel ballad against Cromwell ...
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... observations on all things and sundry , but especially on Puritanism and the Puri- tans . It was his habit afterwards , we know , to enter his stray thoughts at random in a commonplace book , sometimes in a sentence or two of prose ...
... observations on all things and sundry , but especially on Puritanism and the Puri- tans . It was his habit afterwards , we know , to enter his stray thoughts at random in a commonplace book , sometimes in a sentence or two of prose ...
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... observing a pimp of his acquaintance ( the creature , too , was a knight ) trip by with a brace of ladies , immediately quit business ; and from that time to the day of his ted his engagement to follow another kind of death , poor ...
... observing a pimp of his acquaintance ( the creature , too , was a knight ) trip by with a brace of ladies , immediately quit business ; and from that time to the day of his ted his engagement to follow another kind of death , poor ...
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... observation while he was alive . It shiftless , and perhaps too proud , a writer to is very near Rose Street , and round it lie make much of such opportunities as writing the Strand , Fleet Street , Gerard Street , for periodicals and ...
... observation while he was alive . It shiftless , and perhaps too proud , a writer to is very near Rose Street , and round it lie make much of such opportunities as writing the Strand , Fleet Street , Gerard Street , for periodicals and ...
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Page 246 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 19 - Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
Page 253 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 107 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 239 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Page 35 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 26 - Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which "no gentleman's library should be without " : the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Page 35 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 8 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 112 - The parson is always preaching at the squire, and the squire to be revenged on the parson never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists and...