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... EXISTENCE and CHA- RACTER of the SUPREME BEING . By ROBERT ANCHOR THOMPSON , M.A. *** The FIRST BURNETT PRIZE of 18007. has just been awarded to this Work . RIVINGTONS , Waterloo Place . CHEQUE of Books , in Various Depart- HEAP BOOKS ...
... EXISTENCE and CHA- RACTER of the SUPREME BEING . By ROBERT ANCHOR THOMPSON , M.A. *** The FIRST BURNETT PRIZE of 18007. has just been awarded to this Work . RIVINGTONS , Waterloo Place . CHEQUE of Books , in Various Depart- HEAP BOOKS ...
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... existence ? H. T. Providence . -Written upon a fly - leaf of a little pocket Goldsmith's Almanac of 1679 , I found the following lines . Are they from any known au- thor ? There is a striking similarity in idea to some portions of ...
... existence ? H. T. Providence . -Written upon a fly - leaf of a little pocket Goldsmith's Almanac of 1679 , I found the following lines . Are they from any known au- thor ? There is a striking similarity in idea to some portions of ...
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... existence ? Z. z . --- A small white Hand a Sign of high Birth . · I wish some of your correspondents would give their observations on this fallacy ( as I must deem it ) of Lord Byron's . I have had little opportunity myself of forming ...
... existence ? Z. z . --- A small white Hand a Sign of high Birth . · I wish some of your correspondents would give their observations on this fallacy ( as I must deem it ) of Lord Byron's . I have had little opportunity myself of forming ...
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... existence may not be uninteresting : " Thence to see my Lady Pen . , where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity ; of fishes kept in a glass of water , that will live so for ever ; and finely marked they are , being foreign ...
... existence may not be uninteresting : " Thence to see my Lady Pen . , where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity ; of fishes kept in a glass of water , that will live so for ever ; and finely marked they are , being foreign ...
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... existence ? The following passage also occurs in Vertue's work : 6 " Mr. Raymond also favoured me with the sight of a book on vellum , signed Thomas Simon ' in the first leaf , containing twenty - five heads in pencil and ink , Finally ...
... existence ? The following passage also occurs in Vertue's work : 6 " Mr. Raymond also favoured me with the sight of a book on vellum , signed Thomas Simon ' in the first leaf , containing twenty - five heads in pencil and ink , Finally ...
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Page 209 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 135 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 192 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 176 - ... who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear ; But mice and rats, and such small deer,* Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Page 148 - Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind.
Page 65 - Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Page 193 - Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Page 248 - Remember all who love thee, All who are loved by thee ; Pray, too, for those who hate thee, If any such there be ; Then for thyself, in meekness, A blessing humbly claim, And link with each petition Thy great Redeemer's name.
Page 283 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 188 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.