The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., 第 24 卷

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J. Dodsley, 1800
 

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第 142 頁 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
第 183 頁 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
第 326 頁 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
第 273 頁 - March, 1767, upon lands, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great Britain called Scot, wnd, 1,528,568!.
第 2 頁 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.
第 202 頁 - Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept he, As on the which full daint'ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream, his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was Misery ybound.
第 215 頁 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
第 172 頁 - Gilds her accomplifh'd work the female frame, With rich luxuriance tender, fweetly wild, And juft between the woman and the child.
第 202 頁 - Devising means how she may vengeance take, Never in rest, till she have her desire : But frets within so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames, that now determines she To die by death, or veng'd by death to be.
第 164 頁 - You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace " The woods and lawns, by living ftream, " at eve^ " Let health my nerves and finer fibres "•brace, «' And I their toys to the great children " leave : " Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can

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