The Pamphleteer, Volume 25A.J. Valpy, 1825 - Great Britain |
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... lived about 536 years before the Christian era , introduced the recitation of verses between the songs ; and is said to have travelled about with a moveable stage . Eschylus , fifty years afterwards , introduced the dialogue and dra ...
... lived about 536 years before the Christian era , introduced the recitation of verses between the songs ; and is said to have travelled about with a moveable stage . Eschylus , fifty years afterwards , introduced the dialogue and dra ...
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... lived , disgraced their language and their country by licentious writings . With Dr. Blair , " I am happy , however , to have it in my power to observe that , of late years , a sensible reformation has taken place in English comedy ...
... lived , disgraced their language and their country by licentious writings . With Dr. Blair , " I am happy , however , to have it in my power to observe that , of late years , a sensible reformation has taken place in English comedy ...
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... lived ( said he ) sixty years with honor , I left my house this morning a Roman knight , but shall return to it this evening an infamous stage player . Alas ! I have lived a day too long . " James , p . 40 . Another collateral argument ...
... lived ( said he ) sixty years with honor , I left my house this morning a Roman knight , but shall return to it this evening an infamous stage player . Alas ! I have lived a day too long . " James , p . 40 . Another collateral argument ...
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... lived in them , or they must have fallen very low in price . The area of this crescent being so extensive , the buildings of which it is formed seem to call for decoration ; or , at all events , for an ap- pearance of solidity , which ...
... lived in them , or they must have fallen very low in price . The area of this crescent being so extensive , the buildings of which it is formed seem to call for decoration ; or , at all events , for an ap- pearance of solidity , which ...
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... lived , as those of Sir Hervey , and Mr. Elwes , his nephew . Men voluntarily giving up all the blessings of life to save money they knew not why ; embracing poverty and mortifi- cation as the best lot of existence ; and dying martyrs ...
... lived , as those of Sir Hervey , and Mr. Elwes , his nephew . Men voluntarily giving up all the blessings of life to save money they knew not why ; embracing poverty and mortifi- cation as the best lot of existence ; and dying martyrs ...
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Page 18 - While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove, — These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These, round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms, — but all these charms are fled!
Page 58 - There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Page 18 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 18 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 14 - But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Page 18 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 11 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Page 6 - I do not understand the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the catechism of Heidelberg, nor the articles of the church of England, no nor the harmony of protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions, that is, the Bible. The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of protestants.
Page 9 - Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.