A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... says , ' It is not known whether he commenced player before or after he began to write . ' From an old pamphlet , written by Downes the prompter , printed in 1708 , called Roscius Anglicanus , I learn that his appearance on the stage as ...
... says , ' It is not known whether he commenced player before or after he began to write . ' From an old pamphlet , written by Downes the prompter , printed in 1708 , called Roscius Anglicanus , I learn that his appearance on the stage as ...
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... . He was born in the manor - house , which was the family estate , where they held a court - leet , and a court - baron . The old copies and records of the court are lost ; but , they say , it has been 20 Sir Isaac Newton .
... . He was born in the manor - house , which was the family estate , where they held a court - leet , and a court - baron . The old copies and records of the court are lost ; but , they say , it has been 20 Sir Isaac Newton .
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... says the Bishop , he is a year older than Bishop Stone was when your Grace made him a Bishop . He had a mind to have a Bishop appointed for our terri- tories in America , to ordain Clergymen there . Students are forced now to come to ...
... says the Bishop , he is a year older than Bishop Stone was when your Grace made him a Bishop . He had a mind to have a Bishop appointed for our terri- tories in America , to ordain Clergymen there . Students are forced now to come to ...
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... says an arch bookseller , " goes Dean Sherlock , " with his reasons for taking the oaths at his fingers ends . " Dr. Jortin was some time assistant preacher at Lincoln's Inn chapel for Bishop Warburton . He had no recommen- dation to ...
... says an arch bookseller , " goes Dean Sherlock , " with his reasons for taking the oaths at his fingers ends . " Dr. Jortin was some time assistant preacher at Lincoln's Inn chapel for Bishop Warburton . He had no recommen- dation to ...
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... ( says the late Lord Corke , his pupil ) translated double the number of books in the Odyssey that Pope has owned . His reward was a trifle , an arrant trifle . He has even told me , that he thought Pope feared him more than he loved him ...
... ( says the late Lord Corke , his pupil ) translated double the number of books in the Odyssey that Pope has owned . His reward was a trifle , an arrant trifle . He has even told me , that he thought Pope feared him more than he loved him ...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4 John Walker Visualització completa - 1811 |
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Pàgina 386 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Pàgina 383 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Pàgina 306 - An Account of an attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle...
Pàgina 622 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Pàgina 91 - Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.
Pàgina 118 - Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Pàgina 32 - Divi Britannici, being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660, fol.
Pàgina 478 - Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor, and on the Excellence of his moral Character,
Pàgina 165 - If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform me in two posts, •what the conditions are on which you shall expect it. Your late ofFer|" gives me no reason to distrust your generosity. If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper, I have other designs to impart, if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of what I should hint.
Pàgina 165 - As you appear no less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article, you will not be displeased, if, in order to the improvement of it, I communicate to you the sentiments of a person, who will undertake, on reasonable terms, sometimes to fill a column.