A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Band 4Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... common suffrage crowned his cause , And broke the benches with their loud applause , His muse had starved , had not a piece unread , And by a player bought , supplied her bread . Dryden . Fools to popular praise aspire Of publ.c ...
... common suffrage crowned his cause , And broke the benches with their loud applause , His muse had starved , had not a piece unread , And by a player bought , supplied her bread . Dryden . Fools to popular praise aspire Of publ.c ...
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... common usage , these two words are applied pro- miscuously . The spirit of superstition has intro- duced into the Romish church benedictions for almost every thing . We read of forms of bene- dictions for wax candles , for boughs , for ...
... common usage , these two words are applied pro- miscuously . The spirit of superstition has intro- duced into the Romish church benedictions for almost every thing . We read of forms of bene- dictions for wax candles , for boughs , for ...
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... common repast amongst the upper classes is parched or parboiled rice , seasoned with sour milk , tamarinds , or molasses ; amongst the poor , a little water with some salt , or acid fruit . Milk is always dressed in some way before it ...
... common repast amongst the upper classes is parched or parboiled rice , seasoned with sour milk , tamarinds , or molasses ; amongst the poor , a little water with some salt , or acid fruit . Milk is always dressed in some way before it ...
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... common use as foreign com- merce . Benares , the cities of Patna and Cal- cutta , with their immediate vicinities , are the principal seats of the manufacture of chintzes . The art , long since invented , appears to have been indigenous ...
... common use as foreign com- merce . Benares , the cities of Patna and Cal- cutta , with their immediate vicinities , are the principal seats of the manufacture of chintzes . The art , long since invented , appears to have been indigenous ...
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... Common Prayer . 9. An Hebrew Grammar , and other pieces . He died October 9th , 1728 . BENNET , an herb ; the same with avens . BENNET , in botany . See CARYOPHYLLUS . BENNETT ( Agnes Maria ) , a celebrated no- velist , wrote Anna , or ...
... Common Prayer . 9. An Hebrew Grammar , and other pieces . He died October 9th , 1728 . BENNET , an herb ; the same with avens . BENNET , in botany . See CARYOPHYLLUS . BENNETT ( Agnes Maria ) , a celebrated no- velist , wrote Anna , or ...
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Seite 297 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Seite 373 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Seite 82 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Seite 254 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Seite 270 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Seite 184 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 2 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Seite 244 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 227 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Seite 280 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.