The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 222

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Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1867
 

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Page 866 - shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this
Page 866 - SEVEN AGES OF MAN. AT first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms : Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school : and then, the lover,
Page 866 - In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age
Page 803 - Save me from the lion's mouth : for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns."—Psalm xxii., 21. Mathilde was listening now, with starting eyes and parted lips. The priest took up his glorious melody once more :— " ' Quoniam non sprevit ñeque despexit deprecationem pauperis ; nee avertit faciem suam a me ; et cum clamarem ad eum, exaudiit me.'
Page 376 - I have read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. " Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
Page 373 - later James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath bin. By which we note the fairies Were of the old profession : Their songs were Ave Maries, Their dances were procession. But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas, Or farther for religion fled, Or else they take their ease."
Page 168 - That high All-seer which I dallied with, Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Thus doth He force the swords of wicked men To turn their own points on their masters
Page 720 - Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem : how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground. O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery: yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth
Page 519 - he state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field." He bore the English title of Duke of Greenwich, which ceased with him, for he died without children in 1743,
Page 810 - martyrs, the Japanese government set up this impious inscription : " So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan, and let all know, that the King

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