The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volumen12

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Página 123 - I have alfo feen a bird with the legs and feet of a parrot, the head and neck made and coloured like the common fea-gull, and the wings and tail of a hawk.
Página 218 - AN EVENING WALK. An Epistle; in verse. Addressed to a Young Lady, from the Lakes of the North of England.
Página 258 - Islands : we ranged the east side if it, at the distance of three or four miles from the shore, till we were obliged to haul off to avoid a ledge of rocks which stretch out SW by W. from the body, or SE point of the island, to the extent of a league and a half.
Página 469 - Dictionary of the Bible ; or, an explanation of the proper names and difficult words in the Old and New Testament, accented as they ought to be pronounced ; 2nd ed.
Página 312 - No friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear, Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
Página 67 - Hobbes' excellent epistle to him printed before it. The courtiers, with the prince of Wales, could never be at quiet about this piece, which was the occasion of a very witty but satirical little booke of verses in 8vo.
Página 67 - Hobbes told me, was the occasion of their writing. " Here he lay'd an ingeniose designe to carry a considerable number of artificers (chiefly weavers) from hence to Virginia; and by Mary the Q's.
Página 68 - ... taken and brought to London to be tryed for his life, which they understood was in extreme danger, they were touched with so much generosity and goodness, as, upon their...
Página 87 - He then ordered the chaise door to be opened, assuring his fellow traveller, that his heart would not suffer him to ride over that ground, upon which the Apostle Paul had formerly walked chained to a soldier, on account of preaching the everlasting Gospel. As soon as he had set his foot upon this old Roman road, he took off his hat ; and walking on with his eyes lifted up to heaven, returned thanks to God in a most fervent manner, for that light, those truths, and that influence of the Holy Spirit,...
Página 277 - ... of coarse cloth, begrimed with snuff; a dirty shirt, which he always wore as long as it lasted, and which the broken elbows of his doublet did not conceal; and, to finish this inventory, a pair of ruffles which did not belong to the shirt. Such was the brilliant dress of our learned Florentine ; and in such did he appear in the public streets, as well as in his own house.

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