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... whole policy of his government was founded upon " the beginning of Wisdom : ' the age was simple , and the nation poor ; but the people were happy . Little was known of the arts , and of science less . A monarch's state - car- riage was ...
... whole policy of his government was founded upon " the beginning of Wisdom : ' the age was simple , and the nation poor ; but the people were happy . Little was known of the arts , and of science less . A monarch's state - car- riage was ...
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... whole globe , that basks about the sun ; Or as all shrieks and clangs , with which a sphere , Undone and fired , could rake the midnight ear , Compared with that vast dumbness nature keeps Throughout her million starried deeps , Most ...
... whole globe , that basks about the sun ; Or as all shrieks and clangs , with which a sphere , Undone and fired , could rake the midnight ear , Compared with that vast dumbness nature keeps Throughout her million starried deeps , Most ...
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... whole race of tulips come to per- fection about the commemoration of St. John the Evangelist ante portum , May 6th , and the fields are yellow with the crow- foots . The brilliant light red monkey poppy , the glowing crimson peony , the ...
... whole race of tulips come to per- fection about the commemoration of St. John the Evangelist ante portum , May 6th , and the fields are yellow with the crow- foots . The brilliant light red monkey poppy , the glowing crimson peony , the ...
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... whole - length of the first earl of Devonshire in his robes , “ equal , " says Walpole " to the pencil of Vandyke , and one of the finest single figures I have seen . " Van Somer seems to have been the first of those artists who , after ...
... whole - length of the first earl of Devonshire in his robes , “ equal , " says Walpole " to the pencil of Vandyke , and one of the finest single figures I have seen . " Van Somer seems to have been the first of those artists who , after ...
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... whole streets are lined with masks and dominos , the robes of sultans and jackets of pantaloons ; canopies are suspended , balconies and windows festooned with hangings and tapestry ; and scaffolds are erected for the accommodation of ...
... whole streets are lined with masks and dominos , the robes of sultans and jackets of pantaloons ; canopies are suspended , balconies and windows festooned with hangings and tapestry ; and scaffolds are erected for the accommodation of ...
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Page 1309 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Page 227 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing.
Page 529 - ... loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below: so is the prayer of...
Page 751 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 1145 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 155 - ... profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Page 389 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has, not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 409 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain. With marks that will not wear...
Page 351 - RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. TOASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First -*-* Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after.
Page 977 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.