The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or rather written] by T. Forster |
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Pàgina v
... means of fixing in the Memory a vast number of historical Facts and their respective Dates , which would otherwise have been forgotten among the miscellaneous Objects of classical and professional Study . The original Subjects at first ...
... means of fixing in the Memory a vast number of historical Facts and their respective Dates , which would otherwise have been forgotten among the miscellaneous Objects of classical and professional Study . The original Subjects at first ...
Pàgina xvi
... means confined to the learned . The History of the most remarkable Days in the Calendar , and of the Customs which have been attached to them at different Times , affords Matter for the most general Readers , and has never failed in any ...
... means confined to the learned . The History of the most remarkable Days in the Calendar , and of the Customs which have been attached to them at different Times , affords Matter for the most general Readers , and has never failed in any ...
Pàgina xviii
... means of which we are enabled to establish and certify geographical Positions , and to navigate the watery Portions and explore the Surface of our own Globe . He who sweeps the Sky with Telescopes , and penetrates into remote Space , to ...
... means of which we are enabled to establish and certify geographical Positions , and to navigate the watery Portions and explore the Surface of our own Globe . He who sweeps the Sky with Telescopes , and penetrates into remote Space , to ...
Pàgina xxvi
... means of the Index , the Reader having therein a means afforded him of selecting his Subject , and of finding many Autho- rities and References to Subjects of general Interest , arranged in a certain convenient Order : for any given ...
... means of the Index , the Reader having therein a means afforded him of selecting his Subject , and of finding many Autho- rities and References to Subjects of general Interest , arranged in a certain convenient Order : for any given ...
Pàgina 11
... means of living part of the year in town and part in the country find more diversion now in the Opera , Theatre , and various nightly amusements , than in the country . The following favourite old song , sung in Italy , may perhaps ...
... means of living part of the year in town and part in the country find more diversion now in the Opera , Theatre , and various nightly amusements , than in the country . The following favourite old song , sung in Italy , may perhaps ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 206 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Pàgina 164 - There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Pàgina 120 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets : As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse...
Pàgina 172 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Pàgina 218 - Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Pàgina 231 - Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Pàgina 190 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pàgina 51 - Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o
Pàgina 572 - Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone ; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone ; No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes, Or give sigh for sigh. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one ! To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them. Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead.
Pàgina 641 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night ' That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...