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Page 186
... LADY , SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING . Chloris yourself you so excel , When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought , That , like a Spirit , with this spell Of my own teaching , -I am caught . * This poison , my reader will recollect ...
... LADY , SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING . Chloris yourself you so excel , When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought , That , like a Spirit , with this spell Of my own teaching , -I am caught . * This poison , my reader will recollect ...
Page 196
... lady is sophistical ; and argues as if her father , wished her to marry both her suitors . 10 i . e . Kate : Logistil- la appears to be a Patronymick . I fear as yet to venture on naming the reputed Author of these Lines . Perhaps ...
... lady is sophistical ; and argues as if her father , wished her to marry both her suitors . 10 i . e . Kate : Logistil- la appears to be a Patronymick . I fear as yet to venture on naming the reputed Author of these Lines . Perhaps ...
Page 222
... lady's bed - straw ; and which you , as a botanist , " will better recognize as Gallicens borum . " ( Shade of Linnæus ! how poor Galium verum is here dis- torted ! ) " But Resida luteola surpasses them all . ” p . 26. Notwithstanding ...
... lady's bed - straw ; and which you , as a botanist , " will better recognize as Gallicens borum . " ( Shade of Linnæus ! how poor Galium verum is here dis- torted ! ) " But Resida luteola surpasses them all . ” p . 26. Notwithstanding ...
Page 230
... ladies dress ; sold under this title , in honour of Miss Owenson and her Heroine !! P. S. The travelled Reader need not be inform- ed that the notes of Corelli's celebrated Giga are inscribed upon his tomb . NUMBER XXX . SATURDAY ...
... ladies dress ; sold under this title , in honour of Miss Owenson and her Heroine !! P. S. The travelled Reader need not be inform- ed that the notes of Corelli's celebrated Giga are inscribed upon his tomb . NUMBER XXX . SATURDAY ...
Page 256
... Ladies of my bedchamber do not exceed a dozen . NUMBER XXXIII . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 19th , 1807 . Renascentur , quæ jam cecidere . HOR . Slum'bring from Anna's through two Georges ' reign , Behold the Court of Honour lives again ...
... Ladies of my bedchamber do not exceed a dozen . NUMBER XXXIII . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 19th , 1807 . Renascentur , quæ jam cecidere . HOR . Slum'bring from Anna's through two Georges ' reign , Behold the Court of Honour lives again ...
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Page 315 - And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Page 314 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 317 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 315 - And immediately I was in the spirit : and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 312 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 278 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most dear: Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he dy'd.
Page 236 - O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasioned, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring, To God more glory, more good will to men, From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
Page 312 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Page 289 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 288 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.