The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 202Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1857 - English essays |
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... head , prominent fore- head , and intellectual expression always attract the attention of strangers . Mr. Roebuck , who walks into the house with a tottering step , leaning upon a thick stick , usually sits next to Mr. Drummond . Beyond ...
... head , prominent fore- head , and intellectual expression always attract the attention of strangers . Mr. Roebuck , who walks into the house with a tottering step , leaning upon a thick stick , usually sits next to Mr. Drummond . Beyond ...
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... head of a band of grim and hardy soldiers , who received her with enthusiasm , and submitted with alacrity to the discipline of strict morality and solemn prayer which she enforced . It was at day - dawn of a beautiful morning in the ...
... head of a band of grim and hardy soldiers , who received her with enthusiasm , and submitted with alacrity to the discipline of strict morality and solemn prayer which she enforced . It was at day - dawn of a beautiful morning in the ...
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... head , and the acclamations of the multitude resounded and re - echoed through the glorious edifice , it was not upon the unrivalled beauty of the building itself that the eye and heart of that admiring crowd was fixed - not upon the ...
... head , and the acclamations of the multitude resounded and re - echoed through the glorious edifice , it was not upon the unrivalled beauty of the building itself that the eye and heart of that admiring crowd was fixed - not upon the ...
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... heads with their quarters , and twelve living gentlemen , prisoners , bound with whipcord and led between the villeins . The head of the Duke of Surrey was carried first , and upon the highest pole , and before it went the greatest part ...
... heads with their quarters , and twelve living gentlemen , prisoners , bound with whipcord and led between the villeins . The head of the Duke of Surrey was carried first , and upon the highest pole , and before it went the greatest part ...
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... head ; but having great interest at court , his life was spared , on condition that he should be confined to the ... heads of the respective towns to which they belong : - EMLODE ( EVENLODE ) . " And heere meethinckethe I see our shyre ...
... head ; but having great interest at court , his life was spared , on condition that he should be confined to the ... heads of the respective towns to which they belong : - EMLODE ( EVENLODE ) . " And heere meethinckethe I see our shyre ...
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Page 397 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
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Page 396 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle...
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Page 399 - But yet, alas ! but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die. Continually at my bed's head A hearse doth hang, which doth me tell That I ere morning may be dead, Though now I feel myself full well : But yet, alas ! for all this I Have little mind that I must die.
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