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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... hand holding a letter , for the post - master of that town - an appropriate picture , which long continued to be exhibited , by way of sign , we presume , in his post- office window . From the neighbouring gentry the new artist received ...
... hand holding a letter , for the post - master of that town - an appropriate picture , which long continued to be exhibited , by way of sign , we presume , in his post- office window . From the neighbouring gentry the new artist received ...
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... hand , and no friends to assist him in London , it would of course have been a precarious speculation for him to ... hands the law of divorce , which , in its present state , is sufficiently mischievous to society with all its cumbrous ...
... hand , and no friends to assist him in London , it would of course have been a precarious speculation for him to ... hands the law of divorce , which , in its present state , is sufficiently mischievous to society with all its cumbrous ...
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... hands were constantly full of employment , and his prices in- creased from fifteen to thirty - five guineas . ' He ... hand , he often regarded such a disappointment , as a school - boy would a holiday . The finishing , however , of ...
... hands were constantly full of employment , and his prices in- creased from fifteen to thirty - five guineas . ' He ... hand , he often regarded such a disappointment , as a school - boy would a holiday . The finishing , however , of ...
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... hands are full , and I shall be forced to refuse new faces at last , to be en- abled to finish the numbers I have in ... hand . He had great pleasure in observing evening and twilight effects , and began four pictures , suggested by such ...
... hands are full , and I shall be forced to refuse new faces at last , to be en- abled to finish the numbers I have in ... hand . He had great pleasure in observing evening and twilight effects , and began four pictures , suggested by such ...
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... hand and foot , suspend him by the bottom of his sack , head downwards , to the branch of a lofty tree ; make an opening in one side of the sack , and set him to extricate himself from it , to de- tach it from its hold , and suspend ...
... hand and foot , suspend him by the bottom of his sack , head downwards , to the branch of a lofty tree ; make an opening in one side of the sack , and set him to extricate himself from it , to de- tach it from its hold , and suspend ...
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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.