A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient and modern literature, criticism, and philology. II. Philosophy and natural historyLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J. Munday, Oxford., 1809 - Anecdotes |
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Common terms and phrases
12th century Æneid Æschylus amongst ancient animals appears beautiful Bible Bishop bones called century Chaucer church Cicero copy Crasis curious defective verbs earth Eclogue edition English expression father French give gospels Greek Hæc hand hath Henry Homer instance Johnson kind King language Latin learned letters likewise lines Lord Lord's Prayer loving Macbeth Magazine manner means Milton Mopsus nature never night observed occasion opinion original orphrey Ovid paintings particular passage PAUL GEMSEGE Pelias perfect perhaps person Plautus play poem poet Pope præsens præteritum printed probably quæ Queen quid quod reader Rebus rei imperfectæ remarkable Roman Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew signifies Silius Italicus speaking Statius supposed Syrinx Tempus thing thou thought tion transcript translation URBAN verb verse Virgil whence whole Wicliffe winds word writers written Νου
Popular passages
Page 138 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 497 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Page 302 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 248 - ... a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what...
Page 91 - For these two years hath the famine been in the land : and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Page 248 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way, as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course, should as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her LESSONS BY THE WAY.
Page 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 187 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.