The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 33Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1854 |
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... friends to the Cardinal . " The baseness of Wolsey's spirit is supposed to have been shown in the manner in which he received this message . He is represented as absorbed in misery at the thought of his disgrace ; to have been sunk in ...
... friends to the Cardinal . " The baseness of Wolsey's spirit is supposed to have been shown in the manner in which he received this message . He is represented as absorbed in misery at the thought of his disgrace ; to have been sunk in ...
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... friends ; yet Cavendish , at least , who tells the story , felt nothing but uncontrolled emotion . A little incident followed , also of no slight significance , which historians have as if there were nothing in it worth observing ...
... friends ; yet Cavendish , at least , who tells the story , felt nothing but uncontrolled emotion . A little incident followed , also of no slight significance , which historians have as if there were nothing in it worth observing ...
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... friends . " * It is well that we have evidence so trust- worthy , speaking so emphatically in his fa- vor : for the calumnies of Hall and Foxe have pursued him to his grave with the old inveteracy ; and it is creditable to Henry that he ...
... friends . " * It is well that we have evidence so trust- worthy , speaking so emphatically in his fa- vor : for the calumnies of Hall and Foxe have pursued him to his grave with the old inveteracy ; and it is creditable to Henry that he ...
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... friends were , of course , vehement in opposing this ingenious doctrine , but their efforts were almost unavailing , and a set of poets appeared , on the one hand , servile imitators of the French , and on the other , sticklers for ...
... friends were , of course , vehement in opposing this ingenious doctrine , but their efforts were almost unavailing , and a set of poets appeared , on the one hand , servile imitators of the French , and on the other , sticklers for ...
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... friends . He had often met Lucretia at the house of one of his female cousins , who perceiving him to be smitten with her charms , frequently invited his fair one , in order to give him an opportunity of declaring his passion , for ...
... friends . He had often met Lucretia at the house of one of his female cousins , who perceiving him to be smitten with her charms , frequently invited his fair one , in order to give him an opportunity of declaring his passion , for ...
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admiration Anne Boleyn appeared army beard Beaugency beauty Beuve called character Charles Christian Church court Crimea Cromarty death Duke Duke of Orleans effect Elizabeth emperor England English Erasmus eyes fact father favor feeling France French friends genius give hand heart Henry honor House Hugh Miller Ingenuus Joseph John Gurney king labor lady least less letters literary literature living London look Lord Louis Louis Philippe Louis XIV Madame Madame de Sablé marriage married matter Menneval ment mind minister nature never noble occasion once opinion Orleans party passed persons poet political present Prince Queen racter reign remarkable Rossini royal Russian scarcely seems Sevastopol side sion speak spirit Swift taste thing thought tion took truth Vinet Whig whole Wolsey words writing young
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Seite 76 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 480 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Seite 477 - You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.
Seite 471 - Oh ! that you may have but so much regard for me left that this complaint may touch your soul with pity. I say as little as ever I can ; did you but know what I thought, I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you. this and live.
Seite 224 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Seite 468 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Seite 468 - Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, •beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him : both went off just before prayei's.
Seite 376 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Seite 473 - Nor was a burden to mankind With half her course of years behind. You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of changed or falling hairs; How wit and virtue from within Send out a smoothness o'er the skin: Your lectures could my fancy fix, And I can please at thirty-six.
Seite 382 - If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not.