The Quarterly Review, Volume 103William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1858 |
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... Michael Angelo Buonarroti , with Trans- lations of many of his Poems and Letters . By John S. Harford , Esq . , D.C.L. , F.R.S. In 2 vols . London , 1857 . 2. Illustrations , Architectural and Pictorial , of the Genius of Michael Angelo ...
... Michael Angelo Buonarroti , with Trans- lations of many of his Poems and Letters . By John S. Harford , Esq . , D.C.L. , F.R.S. In 2 vols . London , 1857 . 2. Illustrations , Architectural and Pictorial , of the Genius of Michael Angelo ...
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... Michael de la Pole , to Parliament in 1366. Michael became Admiral of the King's Fleet in the North ; and in 1385 [ 8th Richard II . ] , Earl of Suffolk . Henceforth their history is that of a family of the highest aristocracy . They ...
... Michael de la Pole , to Parliament in 1366. Michael became Admiral of the King's Fleet in the North ; and in 1385 [ 8th Richard II . ] , Earl of Suffolk . Henceforth their history is that of a family of the highest aristocracy . They ...
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... Talbot's grandmother , and died at her house at Lacock about 1651 , being about an hundred yeares old . ' This lady's portrait is still preserved at Lacock . The The priories of Bradenstoke and Kington St. Michael's are now 122 Wiltshire .
... Talbot's grandmother , and died at her house at Lacock about 1651 , being about an hundred yeares old . ' This lady's portrait is still preserved at Lacock . The The priories of Bradenstoke and Kington St. Michael's are now 122 Wiltshire .
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... Michael's are now farm - houses . Of Monkton Farley and Stanley Abbeys nothing remains . Of Edington Priory , the beautiful church alone , from the altar of which the venerable Bishop Ayscough , Clerk of the Privy Council , was dragged ...
... Michael's are now farm - houses . Of Monkton Farley and Stanley Abbeys nothing remains . Of Edington Priory , the beautiful church alone , from the altar of which the venerable Bishop Ayscough , Clerk of the Privy Council , was dragged ...
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... Michael Foster of Marlborough and Sir James Glanvile of Broadhinton , high - minded lawyers ; George Montagu , the ornithologist , owner of Lackham , near Chippenham . Salisbury was the birth- place place of Harry Lawes , the musical ...
... Michael Foster of Marlborough and Sir James Glanvile of Broadhinton , high - minded lawyers ; George Montagu , the ornithologist , owner of Lackham , near Chippenham . Salisbury was the birth- place place of Harry Lawes , the musical ...
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Pagina 196 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
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Pagina 207 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
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Pagina 56 - IN brave poursuitt of honorable deed, There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the noble seed, Which unto things of valorous pretence Seemes to be borne by native influence ; As feates of armes ; and love to entertaine : But chiefly skill to ride seemes a science Proper to gentle blood : some others faine To menage steeds, as did this vaunter ; but in vaine.