The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volumen155Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1834 |
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... Italy . lerably amusing , but for a pert flippancy , and ostentation of learning . Mrs. Radcliffe has taken from this work her vivid description of Venice , and of the Brenta , but oh ! how improved in the transcript . Mrs. Piozzi ...
... Italy . lerably amusing , but for a pert flippancy , and ostentation of learning . Mrs. Radcliffe has taken from this work her vivid description of Venice , and of the Brenta , but oh ! how improved in the transcript . Mrs. Piozzi ...
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... Italian Literature . Its purchase was effected for about 10,000l . and it was brought direct to some apartments at ... Italy . They belonged to Consul Smith , who resided at Venice . Their value consists chiefly in this , that there is ...
... Italian Literature . Its purchase was effected for about 10,000l . and it was brought direct to some apartments at ... Italy . They belonged to Consul Smith , who resided at Venice . Their value consists chiefly in this , that there is ...
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... Italy : and on the memorable 19th of May , 1804 , he was created a Marshal ; but on the breaking out of the Austrian war ( 1805 ) , he was superseded by Mas- sena ( as he had been before in Swabia ) , an indignity of which he complained ...
... Italy : and on the memorable 19th of May , 1804 , he was created a Marshal ; but on the breaking out of the Austrian war ( 1805 ) , he was superseded by Mas- sena ( as he had been before in Swabia ) , an indignity of which he complained ...
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... Italian and French lan- guages ; and had some little knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese . Besides the editions of Silius Italicus , and Clau- dian , already noticed , he superintended the publication of the third edition of ...
... Italian and French lan- guages ; and had some little knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese . Besides the editions of Silius Italicus , and Clau- dian , already noticed , he superintended the publication of the third edition of ...
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... Italian , Portugeuse , and French , far , very far exceeds any that ever was made by a private indi- vidual . His collection of Mexican books is singular , indeed . He had an insuperable objection to books printed on large paper ...
... Italian , Portugeuse , and French , far , very far exceeds any that ever was made by a private indi- vidual . His collection of Mexican books is singular , indeed . He had an insuperable objection to books printed on large paper ...
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Página 18 - His outward freedom : tyranny must be ; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, But justice, and some fatal curse annex'd, Deprives them of their outward liberty ; Their inward lost : witness the irreverent son Of him who built the ark ; who, for the shame Done to his father, heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
Página 195 - Tell Fortune of her blindness, Tell Nature of decay, Tell Friendship of unkindness, Tell Justice of delay ; And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie.
Página 586 - Philosophy, wisdom, and liberty, support each other ; he who will not reason, is a bigot ; he who cannot, is a fool ; and he who dares not, is a slave.
Página 195 - Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction: If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie.
Página 26 - It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole, firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but, to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable " Letters," and of the "Castle of Otranto," he is the "Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the " Mysterious Mother," a tragedy of the highest order, and riot a puling love-play.
Página 360 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 195 - Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Página 135 - Then he went to the corner of the scaffold, and called very loud for the warder, to give him his perriwig, which he took off, and put on a night-cap of Scotch plaid, and then pulled off his coat and waistcoat and lay down; but being told he was on the wrong side, vaulted round, and immediately gave the sign by tossing up his arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation.
Página 367 - Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs, and people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known they will be there.
Página 152 - I do not believe, neither do I hear, that any officer escaped with his life, save only one Lieutenant, who, I hear, going to the Enemy said, That he was the only man that escaped of all the Garrison. The Enemy upon this were filled with much terror. And truly I believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God.