Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine and Bibliographical Review, Band 7Edward Walford, George W. Redway W. Reeves, 1885 |
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Seite 8 - But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Seite 45 - The judges are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and former Lord Chancellors.
Seite 71 - That at the marriages and burials of bretheren and their wives, the craft should attend to the church such persons to be married or buried ; that one half of their fines should go to the maintenance of the great bridge, the other half to the fellowship.
Seite 62 - They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated it would hang down motionless, and this was often proved to be so.
Seite 7 - ... accordingly they were put to the press, and some progress made in the letters, when Dr. Sheridan getting intelligence of it, and being greatly alarmed lest they might contain something injurious to his friend's character in his absence, applied so effectually to the executors that the printed copy was cancelled, but the originals still remained in their hands. The poem of ' Cadenus and Vanessa ' was, however, sent abroad into the world, as being supposed to contain nothing prejudicial to either...
Seite 72 - France, and other countries, at the end of the last and beginning of the present centuries...
Seite 14 - Ethelwulf s genealogy as it is to be seen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Ethelwulf was the son of Egbert, Egbert of Elmund, of Eafa, of Eoppa, of Ingild ; Ingild was Ina's brother, King of the West Saxons, he who held the kingdom thirtyseven years, and afterwards went to St. Peter and there resigned his life, and they were the sons of Kenred, of Ceolwald, of Cutha, of Cuthwin, of Ceawlin, of Cynric, of Cerdic, of Elesa, of Esla, of Gewis, of Wig, of Freawin, of Frithogar, of Brond, of Beldeg, of...
Seite 134 - The present House of Lords cannot claim amongst its members a single male descendant of any one of the Barons who were chosen to enforce Magna Charta, or of any one of the Peers who are known to have fought at Agincourt ; and the noble house of Wrottesley is the solitary existing family, among the Lords, which can boast of a male descent from a Founder of the Order of the Garter.
Seite 31 - Demosthenes's oration for the Megalopolitans, may see the utmost refinements on this principle that ever entered into the head of a Venetian or English speculatist.
Seite 6 - Swift made no sign till he had quite done, and then with the utmost gravity said, •• And I, Mr. Philips, should take him to have been a plump man, just five feet eight inches and a half high, not very neatly dressed, in a black gown with pudding sleeves.