Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... character of one of his early patrons , Sir Samuel Luke , or Sir Henry Rosewell , in that of Hudibras ; and Ralph , and Talgol , and Crowdero , and Trulla , are all traced to supposed individual originals . We believe all the Jabour ...
... character of one of his early patrons , Sir Samuel Luke , or Sir Henry Rosewell , in that of Hudibras ; and Ralph , and Talgol , and Crowdero , and Trulla , are all traced to supposed individual originals . We believe all the Jabour ...
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... character of the Iberiaus some traits may be recognised , which even to this day mark the Spaniard . The grave dress , the temperance and sobriety , the unyielding spirit , the extreme indolence , the perseverance in guerilla warfare ...
... character of the Iberiaus some traits may be recognised , which even to this day mark the Spaniard . The grave dress , the temperance and sobriety , the unyielding spirit , the extreme indolence , the perseverance in guerilla warfare ...
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... character than those of the feeble supposition of Dr. Grey , who imagines that Butler alluded to " the cant words used by Presby- terians and Sectaries of those times , such as Gospel- walking , Gospel - preaching , Soul - saving ...
... character than those of the feeble supposition of Dr. Grey , who imagines that Butler alluded to " the cant words used by Presby- terians and Sectaries of those times , such as Gospel- walking , Gospel - preaching , Soul - saving ...
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... character . It has on a few occasions happened that , as a means of affording a little information con- cerning any particular branch of manufacture , we have found it desirable to extend our observations beyond the walls of one factory ...
... character . It has on a few occasions happened that , as a means of affording a little information con- cerning any particular branch of manufacture , we have found it desirable to extend our observations beyond the walls of one factory ...
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... character , but was inferior as an artist . To his heads of the Virgin he gave an expres- sion of saintly beauty , purity , and tenderness , which two hundred years later excited the admiration and emulation of Guido . Lippo died about ...
... character , but was inferior as an artist . To his heads of the Virgin he gave an expres- sion of saintly beauty , purity , and tenderness , which two hundred years later excited the admiration and emulation of Guido . Lippo died about ...
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Page 181 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Page 10 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood...
Page 11 - He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack...
Page 31 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 61 - ... made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 231 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 10 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Page 11 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th' holsters, at his saddle-bow, Two aged pistols he did stow, Aniong the surplus of such meat As in his hose he could not get : ' These would inveigle rats with th...
Page 31 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Page 244 - Where joy, heart's ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.