The Auto-biography of John Britton: A descriptive account of the literary works, by T.E. Jonesas presents to subscribers to "The Britton Testimonial", 1849 |
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Page 129 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 16 - This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Page 112 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Page 49 - The Beauties of England and Wales; or Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of each County (1801-1817).
Page 200 - MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY, FRS EMBRACING HIS AUTO-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, A BRIEF REVIEW OF HIS PERSONAL AND LITERARY MERITS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF HIS WORKS ; WITH Extracts from his Correspondence, ANECDOTES OF SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND OF THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED BY JOHN BRITTON, FSA &c. Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society.
Page 41 - ... public cause ; Approach : behold this marble. Know ye not The features? Hath not oft his faithful tongue Told you the fashion of your own estate, The secrets of your bosom? Here then, round His monument with reverence while ye stand, Say to each other: —
Page 107 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history : And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 159 - The History of the college of Bonhommes at Ashridge in the county of Buckingham, founded in the year 1276, by Edmund, earl of Cornwall: compiled...
Page 12 - Kemble, caused it to be repaired, and the original colours preserved, in 1748, from the profits of the representation of Othello. This was a generous and apparently judicious act, and therefore very unlike the next alteration it was subjected to in 1793. In that year Mr. Malone caused THE BUST to be covered over with one or more coats of white paint, and thus at once destroyed its original character, and greatly injured the expression of the face.
Page 19 - dainty spirit," while it soared above This dull, gross compound, scattered as it flew Treasures of light and loveliness. And these Were " gentle SHARSPERE'S " features ; this the eye Whence Earth's least earthly mind looked out, and flashed Amazement on the nations ; this the brow Where lofty thought majestically brooded, Seated as on a throne ; and these the lips That warbled music stolen from heaven's own choir When Seraph-harps rang sweetest.