The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Τόμος 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... Czar Peter created , and not to engage in an useless attempt , to clear up the chaos of antiquity . We should always keep in mind , that no family upon earth knows its first founder , and consequently , that no nation knows its first ...
... Czar Peter created , and not to engage in an useless attempt , to clear up the chaos of antiquity . We should always keep in mind , that no family upon earth knows its first founder , and consequently , that no nation knows its first ...
Σελίδα 6
... czar and his courtiers . These dresses were not manufactured in the country ; and yet , it is evident , that the people might be ren- dered industrious long before that time . In the reign of the czar Boris Godonow , the largest bell ...
... czar and his courtiers . These dresses were not manufactured in the country ; and yet , it is evident , that the people might be ren- dered industrious long before that time . In the reign of the czar Boris Godonow , the largest bell ...
Σελίδα 7
... czar Alexis , father of Peter I. recovered it again in 1654 , since which time it has always constituted part of the Russian empire . The panegyric of Peter the Great , pronounced in the academy of sciences at Paris , takes notice ...
... czar Alexis , father of Peter I. recovered it again in 1654 , since which time it has always constituted part of the Russian empire . The panegyric of Peter the Great , pronounced in the academy of sciences at Paris , takes notice ...
Σελίδα 9
... czar , John Basilides , and not in that of Foeder Johan- nowitz , a private person in the neighbourhood of Archangel , named Anika , one tolerably rich for his condition of life and country , took notice , that certain men of an ...
... czar , John Basilides , and not in that of Foeder Johan- nowitz , a private person in the neighbourhood of Archangel , named Anika , one tolerably rich for his condition of life and country , took notice , that certain men of an ...
Σελίδα 14
... czar ordered to have his hat nailed to his head , for not pulling it off while he was making his speech to him . Others attribute this adventure to a Tartar , and others again to a French ambas- sador . Olearius pretends , that the czar ...
... czar ordered to have his hat nailed to his head , for not pulling it off while he was making his speech to him . Others attribute this adventure to a Tartar , and others again to a French ambas- sador . Olearius pretends , that the czar ...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Τόμος 3 Πλήρης προβολή - 1835 |
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Σελίδα 17 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Σελίδα 16 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Σελίδα 16 - But chiefly Love— to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And all the trophies of his former loves...
Σελίδα 19 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains. But oh! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like citron-waters matrons...
Σελίδα 16 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Σελίδα 16 - Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. This erring mortals levity may call ; Oh blind to truth ! the sylphs contrive it all.
Σελίδα 86 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Σελίδα 17 - Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...