La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6J. Bell, 1809 |
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... chess . ” the play of the king . This designation it re- It is not easy to conceive how a man of such tained among the Arabs , of whom the Spani- erudition as Saumaise , could , without pre- ards probably learned it in the middle ages ...
... chess . ” the play of the king . This designation it re- It is not easy to conceive how a man of such tained among the Arabs , of whom the Spani- erudition as Saumaise , could , without pre- ards probably learned it in the middle ages ...
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... chess with Ernest , Duke of Brunswick , his friend and companion in misfortune , when Charles sent to acquaint him that sentence of death had | } princes , and made each of them check -. Anna Comnena , who must have been better ...
... chess with Ernest , Duke of Brunswick , his friend and companion in misfortune , when Charles sent to acquaint him that sentence of death had | } princes , and made each of them check -. Anna Comnena , who must have been better ...
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... chess with them on as life , and habited with the utmost magni- their return from their unfortunate expeditions ficence . Their armour was of gold , enamelled to the Holy Sepulchre , this game was long in and enriched , as well as their ...
... chess with them on as life , and habited with the utmost magni- their return from their unfortunate expeditions ficence . Their armour was of gold , enamelled to the Holy Sepulchre , this game was long in and enriched , as well as their ...
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... chess than to transport Babylon into Egypt , to metamorphose the emirs of the Arabs into admirals , and to suppose that Charlemagne had assumed the cross preparatory to an ex- pedition to the Holy Laud . At their time the game of chess ...
... chess than to transport Babylon into Egypt , to metamorphose the emirs of the Arabs into admirals , and to suppose that Charlemagne had assumed the cross preparatory to an ex- pedition to the Holy Laud . At their time the game of chess ...
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... chess is related to have been invented in India ; for he says that it was designed by a Bramin to cure the melancholy of the dangh- ter of a rajah . This origin he justly thinks highly improbable ; but he would scarely have said the ...
... chess is related to have been invented in India ; for he says that it was designed by a Bramin to cure the melancholy of the dangh- ter of a rajah . This origin he justly thinks highly improbable ; but he would scarely have said the ...
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Page 15 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 192 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
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Page 87 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 87 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
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Page 113 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion or the echoing horn No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 15 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.