The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 166Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1839 - English essays |
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Page 242 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 269 - Then we all ran; when the Court gates were set open, and no man did hinder us from coming in.
Page 497 - Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Page 273 - That I can live never to see thee and my child more! — I cannot! I have desired God and disputed with my reason, but •nature and compassion hath the victory. That I can live to think how you are both left a spoil to my enemies, and that my name shall be a dishonour to my child — I cannot!
Page 260 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Page 397 - a bold impertinent fellow.. .a perpetual talker and made a noise like a drum in a room. So one time at a tavern Sir Walter Raleigh beats him and seals up his mouth (that is his upper and nether beard) with hard wax.
Page 595 - 11 sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that 's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 476 - I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of the dead, in which Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.
Page 242 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been ; and God requireth that which is past.
Page 190 - That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to give directions that the remains of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone be interred at the public charge, and that a monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, with an inscription expressive of the public admiration and attachment and of the high sense entertained of his rare and splendid...