Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Том 186

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F. Jefferies, 1849
 

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Стр. 205 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted...
Стр. 205 - ... without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts. Thither was borne, before the window where Jane Grey was praying, the mangled corpse of Guilford Dudley.
Стр. 205 - Vitalis, a man worthy to have lived in a better age, and to have died in a better cause. There are laid John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral, and Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, Lord High Treasurer. There, too, is another Essex, on whom nature and fortune had lavished all their bounties in vain, and whom valour, grace, genius, royal favour, popular applause, conducted to an early and ignominious doom.
Стр. 261 - YE vales and hills whose beauty hither drew The poet's steps, and fixed him here, on you, His eyes have closed ! And ye, loved books, no more Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown Adding immortal...
Стр. 205 - In truth there is no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the...
Стр. 93 - I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars, of which the light, it can be proved, must take two millions of years to reach the earth.
Стр. 126 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England : A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Стр. 267 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Стр. 97 - His face and person were rather on a small scale ; his features regular ; his eye lively and penetrating; and when he spoke, dimples played about his mouth ; which, nevertheless, had something restrained and close in it.
Стр. 93 - I had just witnessed. Much, however, as the wit and erudition of these men pleases an auditor at the first or second visit, the trial of minds becomes at last fatiguing, because it is unnatural and unsatisfactory. Every one of these brilliants goes there to shine ; for conversational powers are so much the rage in London, that no reputation is higher than his who exhibits them to advantage.

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