The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Band 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... SOCIETY , AND A VICE - PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL WESTERN INFIRMARY , THE Motto " CAUSE CAUSED IT . - " HE ancestor of this nobleman was a German of the name of Elvington , who settled in Scotland during the reign of Robert I. , and married ...
... SOCIETY , AND A VICE - PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL WESTERN INFIRMARY , THE Motto " CAUSE CAUSED IT . - " HE ancestor of this nobleman was a German of the name of Elvington , who settled in Scotland during the reign of Robert I. , and married ...
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... societies of literary character ; and formed an acquaintance with Talma , which afterwards ripened into the closest intimacy . The fol- lowing extract from a Parisian journal of that day will shew the general interest he excited : " Mr ...
... societies of literary character ; and formed an acquaintance with Talma , which afterwards ripened into the closest intimacy . The fol- lowing extract from a Parisian journal of that day will shew the general interest he excited : " Mr ...
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... society to pass through life without at some time or other being in- volved in personal altercation and contest . Mr. Kemble's general urbanity shielded him in a great measure from un- pleasant occurrences of that nature . One day ...
... society to pass through life without at some time or other being in- volved in personal altercation and contest . Mr. Kemble's general urbanity shielded him in a great measure from un- pleasant occurrences of that nature . One day ...
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... SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH , AND OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES AMERICA ; FOR MANY YEARS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY , WOOLWICH . DR . CHARLES HUTTON was born at Newcastle - upon - Tyne , on the 14th of ...
... SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH , AND OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES AMERICA ; FOR MANY YEARS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY , WOOLWICH . DR . CHARLES HUTTON was born at Newcastle - upon - Tyne , on the 14th of ...
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... societies and academies , both at home and abroad ; but there needed some masterly hand to seize and collect these scattered fragments , to reduce them to method and order , to correct what was erroneous , curtail what was too ...
... societies and academies , both at home and abroad ; but there needed some masterly hand to seize and collect these scattered fragments , to reduce them to method and order , to correct what was erroneous , curtail what was too ...
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Seite 36 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate...
Seite 45 - His transport's most impetuous tone, And to each passion of his breast The graces gave their zone. High were the task — too high, Ye conscious bosoms here ! In words to paint your memory Of Kemble and of Lear; But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of reason's half-extinguish'd glare — Those tears upon Cordelia's bosom shed, In doubt more touching than despair, If 'twas reality he felt?
Seite 55 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Seite 420 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Seite 198 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Seite 35 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Seite 45 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Seite 93 - His figure was striking, but not so from grace ; it was tall, and, though extremely thin, his limbs were large and uncouth, and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air ; something almost superhuman.
Seite 471 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 117 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.