The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, כרך 21R. Griffiths, 1759 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 51
עמוד 10
... earth . His blood , we think , calls aloud for vengeance , The very afhes of the dead feem to be disturbed at the thought that his injuries are to pass unrevenged . The hor- rors which are fuppofed to haunt the bed , of the murderer ...
... earth . His blood , we think , calls aloud for vengeance , The very afhes of the dead feem to be disturbed at the thought that his injuries are to pass unrevenged . The hor- rors which are fuppofed to haunt the bed , of the murderer ...
עמוד 61
... earth . With an Appendix , containing fome other pieces . By William Smith , D. D. Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia . 8vo . 3s . 6d . Millar , & c . THE HE principal defign of these difcourfes is , to fhew the value of ...
... earth . With an Appendix , containing fome other pieces . By William Smith , D. D. Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia . 8vo . 3s . 6d . Millar , & c . THE HE principal defign of these difcourfes is , to fhew the value of ...
עמוד 63
... earth ; dependent on a pulse ⚫ for every breath of being ; furrounded with dangers innu- merable ; marching forth ... earth . Animated by this fublime principle , what wonders have . not Britons performed ? How have they rifen , the ...
... earth ; dependent on a pulse ⚫ for every breath of being ; furrounded with dangers innu- merable ; marching forth ... earth . Animated by this fublime principle , what wonders have . not Britons performed ? How have they rifen , the ...
עמוד 64
... earth , that from the days of our Alfreds , our Edwards , and our • Henries , downwards , the British fword was never unsheath- ⚫ed in a more glorious or more divine cause than at present ! • Look round you ! behold a country vaft in ...
... earth , that from the days of our Alfreds , our Edwards , and our • Henries , downwards , the British fword was never unsheath- ⚫ed in a more glorious or more divine cause than at present ! • Look round you ! behold a country vaft in ...
עמוד 65
... earth for a poffeffion . " The fubject of the fifth difcourfe is , the planting the sci- ences , and the propagation of the gospel in America ; it was delivered before the truftees , mafters , ftudents , and fcholars of the college and ...
... earth for a poffeffion . " The fubject of the fifth difcourfe is , the planting the sci- ences , and the propagation of the gospel in America ; it was delivered before the truftees , mafters , ftudents , and fcholars of the college and ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
עמוד 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
עמוד 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
עמוד 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
עמוד 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
עמוד 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
עמוד 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
עמוד 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
עמוד 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
עמוד 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...