The London Quarterly Review, Volume 4Theodore Foster, 1811 |
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... possessed them , at a third of their value . All the gold and silver of all the churches , chapels , and fraternities , within the city of Lisbon and its district , was to be carried to the mint within fifteen days , no other plate ...
... possessed them , at a third of their value . All the gold and silver of all the churches , chapels , and fraternities , within the city of Lisbon and its district , was to be carried to the mint within fifteen days , no other plate ...
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... possesses could be so highly extolled . That our readers may judge how far we are justified in adopt- ing this language , we shall proceed to give them an account of the book now on our table : first allowing Professor Leslie to speak ...
... possesses could be so highly extolled . That our readers may judge how far we are justified in adopt- ing this language , we shall proceed to give them an account of the book now on our table : first allowing Professor Leslie to speak ...
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... . They only betray that want of truth and candoar to which controversy is apt to lead every mind not possessed of the very best principles . His character is that of a learned and accurate divine ; nor do [ 68 ] AUG .
... . They only betray that want of truth and candoar to which controversy is apt to lead every mind not possessed of the very best principles . His character is that of a learned and accurate divine ; nor do [ 68 ] AUG .
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... possess the same advantage : the money can- not be had over again . And it is plain also , that not only is this year positively richer than it ought to be , but relatively also . Its excess of riches is the result of the poverty of the ...
... possess the same advantage : the money can- not be had over again . And it is plain also , that not only is this year positively richer than it ought to be , but relatively also . Its excess of riches is the result of the poverty of the ...
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... possessed a copy of the Report ( not yet printed ) of " Receipts " for the year 1809 . There he would have seen , among other particulars of a like cha- racter , a sum not less than 30007. instead of 11951. 15s . 9d . added to the ...
... possessed a copy of the Report ( not yet printed ) of " Receipts " for the year 1809 . There he would have seen , among other particulars of a like cha- racter , a sum not less than 30007. instead of 11951. 15s . 9d . added to the ...
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Página 162 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 168 - IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Página 283 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have...
Página 290 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 290 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 282 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the muses sing of happy swains, Because the muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants...
Página 282 - THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Their country's beauty or .their nymphs...
Página 290 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 308 - The lovers' meeting : she beheld him faint. With tender fears, she took a nearer view, Her terrors doubling as her hopes withdrew ; He tried to smile, and, half succeeding, said, " Yes! I must die ;
Página 491 - Lord's vineyard, it is needful you should do that part of the work which we advise, at those times and places which we judge most for His glory.