Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalR. Griffiths., 1830 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... feet in its place . Though endowed with the suppleness of an Indian juggler , and promised his sack full of gold for a reward , you would set him an absolute impossibility ; yet this is what our caterpillars , instructed by a beneficent ...
... feet in its place . Though endowed with the suppleness of an Indian juggler , and promised his sack full of gold for a reward , you would set him an absolute impossibility ; yet this is what our caterpillars , instructed by a beneficent ...
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... feet , and some distance from the suspensory cordage of silk , has still to reach this , fix itself there , and cast off the sloughed skin altogether . This ope- ration causes , says Bonnet , a spectator to tremble for the consequences ...
... feet , and some distance from the suspensory cordage of silk , has still to reach this , fix itself there , and cast off the sloughed skin altogether . This ope- ration causes , says Bonnet , a spectator to tremble for the consequences ...
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... covered in every part with their bodies , from two to four inches in depth . Near the lowest step , a surface of water , of five or six feet dimensions every way , was entirely covered with a thick layer Insect Transformations . 27.
... covered in every part with their bodies , from two to four inches in depth . Near the lowest step , a surface of water , of five or six feet dimensions every way , was entirely covered with a thick layer Insect Transformations . 27.
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... feet so long had stray'd : Where and what are they now ? a bitter dream Lit by a meteor - like delusive gleam . Freedom ! thou art indeed a dream ! a bright , A beautiful - a vision of pure light , Pour'd on our earth - clad spirits ...
... feet so long had stray'd : Where and what are they now ? a bitter dream Lit by a meteor - like delusive gleam . Freedom ! thou art indeed a dream ! a bright , A beautiful - a vision of pure light , Pour'd on our earth - clad spirits ...
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... feet deep , and having a descent of fifty feet in half a mile . An island at the very verge of the cataract divides it into two sheets of water ; one of these , called the Horse - shoe Fall , is six hundred yards wide , and one hundred ...
... feet deep , and having a descent of fifty feet in half a mile . An island at the very verge of the cataract divides it into two sheets of water ; one of these , called the Horse - shoe Fall , is six hundred yards wide , and one hundred ...
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Seite 68 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end, of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world, all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 54 - Poor child ! thought I, what sorrow art thou like to have for thy portion in this world ! Thou must be beaten ; must beg ; suffer hunger, cold, nakedness, and a thousand calamities, though I cannot now endure the wind should blow upon thee...
Seite 251 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe; nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! WITCH.
Seite 302 - I looked around me, and wondered that I was not more affected, but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion...
Seite 420 - I have been writing a ballad, my dear ; I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea, and broken her father's arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for her lover ; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing ! Help me to one." — "Steal the cow, sister Anne,
Seite 537 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forwards.
Seite 312 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Seite 300 - I was conducted to my apartment in a distant part of the building. I must own, that when I heard door after door shut, after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself as too far from the living, and somewhat too near the dead. We had passed through what is called * the King's Hoom,' a vaulted apartment, garnished with stags...
Seite 53 - I tell thee, woman, seeing it is so that they have taken what thy husband spake for a conviction, thou must either apply thyself to the king, or sue out his pardon, or get a writ of error.
Seite 54 - I saw in this condition I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children ; yet thought I, I must do it, I must do it. And now I thought on those two milch kine that were to carry the ark of God into another country, to leave their calves behind them.