The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volumen1John Timbs 1839 |
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... probably , recur to it , and point out a course which we think might be pursued with success . Sorry shall we be if the matter is now allowed to rest . It is in the architectural works of a people that many points of their history may ...
... probably , recur to it , and point out a course which we think might be pursued with success . Sorry shall we be if the matter is now allowed to rest . It is in the architectural works of a people that many points of their history may ...
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... probably , is not older than the middle of the eleventh century , when great additions were made to the abbey church in the vicinity . - Britton's Ar- chitectural Dictionary , voce Bridge . ( A view and account of it will be found in ...
... probably , is not older than the middle of the eleventh century , when great additions were made to the abbey church in the vicinity . - Britton's Ar- chitectural Dictionary , voce Bridge . ( A view and account of it will be found in ...
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... probably have given place to several forms of con- struction , each partaking of the fashion prevalent at the time of its erection . It may also be observed , that the form of the arches is of that particular description which was last ...
... probably have given place to several forms of con- struction , each partaking of the fashion prevalent at the time of its erection . It may also be observed , that the form of the arches is of that particular description which was last ...
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... probably widened ; though it was originally built after the model of the side ones , for the springing stones remained . Caen stone appears to have been used for the arching , whilst Purbeck stone and Kentish rag were employed in the ...
... probably widened ; though it was originally built after the model of the side ones , for the springing stones remained . Caen stone appears to have been used for the arching , whilst Purbeck stone and Kentish rag were employed in the ...
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... probably was never exceeded by the ingenuity of man . It consisted of a small coach , drawn by two horses , in which was the figure of a lady , with a footman and page behind . This coach being placed at the extremity of a table of a ...
... probably was never exceeded by the ingenuity of man . It consisted of a small coach , drawn by two horses , in which was the figure of a lady , with a footman and page behind . This coach being placed at the extremity of a table of a ...
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Página 233 - And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Página 263 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Página 308 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Página 263 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent no From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls: A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave.
Página 317 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Página 333 - We see him, so far as we do see him, not in himself, but in a reflex image from the objectivity in which he was manifested : he is Falstaff and Mercutio and Malvolio and Jaques and Portia and Imogen and Lear and Othello ; but to us he is scarcely a determined person, a substantial reality of past time, the man Shakspeare. The two greatest names in poetry are to us little more than names. If we are not yet come to question his unity, as we do that of " the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle...
Página 216 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Página 43 - The true test of a great man — that, at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of great men — is his having been. in advance of his age.
Página 352 - Review; this was acceded to •with acclamation. I was appointed Editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review.
Página 392 - And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; ' Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams : — The goldless age, where gold disturbs no dreams, Inhabits or inhabited the shore, Till Europe taught them better than before : Bestow'd her customs, and amended theirs, But left her vices also to their heirs.