John Francis, Publisher of the Athenæum: A Literary Chronicle of Half a Century, Band 1R. Bentley & son, 1888 |
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... write a short memoir , to include some account of the part he took in obtaining the repeal of the taxes upon lite- rature , as well as of the many other movements in which he interested himself for the general welfare of the people . In ...
... write a short memoir , to include some account of the part he took in obtaining the repeal of the taxes upon lite- rature , as well as of the many other movements in which he interested himself for the general welfare of the people . In ...
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... writing the Introductory Note , Mr. John Randall for his valuable sugges- tions and for the careful way in which he has prepared the index , as well as my good friend Mr. Slate . VOL . I. b I will only add that I am alone responsible ...
... writing the Introductory Note , Mr. John Randall for his valuable sugges- tions and for the careful way in which he has prepared the index , as well as my good friend Mr. Slate . VOL . I. b I will only add that I am alone responsible ...
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... Writing than is now presented by the best that the number of its permanent Associates is likely to ensure More Variety of style and materials than is usually found in any single periodical : —that it will be published on a day ...
... Writing than is now presented by the best that the number of its permanent Associates is likely to ensure More Variety of style and materials than is usually found in any single periodical : —that it will be published on a day ...
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... writing was conducted by Mr. West at six in the morning . good work thus commenced in 1804 was continued under his direct superintendence for sixty - two years . While teaching on Sunday , the 28th of January , 1866 , he was taken ...
... writing was conducted by Mr. West at six in the morning . good work thus commenced in 1804 was continued under his direct superintendence for sixty - two years . While teaching on Sunday , the 28th of January , 1866 , he was taken ...
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... write a poem on the same topics as those treated of in ' Satan , ' would produce a more creditable work ...... Mr . Montgomery calls up spirits ; but , instead of coming from the vasty deep , they rise from the ditch of the ' Dunciad ...
... write a poem on the same topics as those treated of in ' Satan , ' would produce a more creditable work ...... Mr . Montgomery calls up spirits ; but , instead of coming from the vasty deep , they rise from the ditch of the ' Dunciad ...
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Seite 528 - God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Seite 426 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!
Seite 481 - Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyaena and sixteen other animals : discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821 : with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the Continent.
Seite 413 - Walter himself, the chief ornament and delight at all those simple meetings — she to whose love I owed my own place in them — Scott's eldest daughter, the one of all his children who in countenance, mind, and manners, most resembled himself, and who indeed was as like him in all things as a gentle innocent woman can ever be to a great man deeply tried and skilled in the struggles and perplexities of active life — she, too, is no more.
Seite 180 - I was yesterday with George Walsh and Mansfield over the cholera districts of Bermondsey ; and, oh, God ! what I saw ! people having no water to drink — hundreds of them — but the water of the common sewer which stagnated full of ... dead fish, cats and dogs, under their windows.
Seite 60 - And fill with happier love than earth's, That tender heart of thine ! That when the thrones of earth shall be As low as graves brought down, A pierced Hand may give to thee The crown which angels shout to see!
Seite 128 - This day I began to sit, and he will make me, I think, a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as good as my wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by.
Seite 147 - Do you know,' said Mr. Marshall to me, 'I positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye — the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended to pick it up, and to my astonishment found it was a thin scale of what appears to be pure gold.
Seite 59 - O MAIDEN ! heir of kings ! A king has left his place ! The majesty of Death has swept All other from his face ! And thou upon thy mother's breast No longer lean adown, But take the glory for the rest, And rule the land that loves thee best...
Seite 532 - Tis like the birthday of the world, When earth was born in bloom ; The light is made of many dyes, The air is all perfume ; There's crimson buds, and white and blue — The very rainbow show'rs Have turned to blossoms where they fell, And sown the earth with flowers.