Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1828 - Bibliography Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... Matters being thus arranged , Captain Franklin , and his brother officers , Lieutenant Back , Dr. Richardson , Mr. Kendall , Mr. Drummond , assistant naturalist , and four marines , embarked at Liverpool , in an American packet , on the ...
... Matters being thus arranged , Captain Franklin , and his brother officers , Lieutenant Back , Dr. Richardson , Mr. Kendall , Mr. Drummond , assistant naturalist , and four marines , embarked at Liverpool , in an American packet , on the ...
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... matter of regret that , in the distribution of the arts and sciences among the nine daughters of Memory , the province of History should have been allotted to so very dignified a personage as the Muse who has hitherto presided over it ...
... matter of regret that , in the distribution of the arts and sciences among the nine daughters of Memory , the province of History should have been allotted to so very dignified a personage as the Muse who has hitherto presided over it ...
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... matters with which alone she deigns to occupy herself , nothing can be conceived more frigid and unnatural than the mode of narration usually adopted by the historic muse . Whatever would lead us to think of the per- sonages introduced ...
... matters with which alone she deigns to occupy herself , nothing can be conceived more frigid and unnatural than the mode of narration usually adopted by the historic muse . Whatever would lead us to think of the per- sonages introduced ...
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... matter by the language ( as quoted in another part of the volume ) , of the very authority to whom he seems to have been indebted for the information he gives on the subject , which expressly states the money raised during the period in ...
... matter by the language ( as quoted in another part of the volume ) , of the very authority to whom he seems to have been indebted for the information he gives on the subject , which expressly states the money raised during the period in ...
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... matter . Lady Arlington's only child , Lady Isabella Bennett , was formally married to the Duke of Grafton ( son of Charles the Second by the Duchess of Cleveland ) when she was only five , and he eight years old . The Arch- bishop of ...
... matter . Lady Arlington's only child , Lady Isabella Bennett , was formally married to the Duke of Grafton ( son of Charles the Second by the Duchess of Cleveland ) when she was only five , and he eight years old . The Arch- bishop of ...
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Page 388 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 367 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Page 476 - I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually...
Page 520 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 227 - They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 408 - Oh, no, no," said the little Fly ; " to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.
Page 225 - The new bank is not long in being visited by sea-birds: salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus, is thrown on shore; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and still more every gale, adds something to the bank ; the form of an island is gradually assumed ; and last of all, comes man to take possession.
Page 408 - Will you rest upon my little bed?" Said the spider to the fly. "There are pretty curtains drawn around, The sheets are fine and thin; And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in." "Oh, no, no!" said the little fly, "For I've often heard it said, They never, never wake again Who sleep upon your bed.
Page 414 - Full of all gentleness, of calmest hope, Of sweet and quiet joy; there was the look Of Heaven upon his face which limners give To the beloved disciple.
Page 227 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment : the waters stood above the mountains.