Gentleman's Magazine Library: Surrey. Sussex

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E. Stock, 1900
 

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Página 172 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Página 126 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 119 - Who many a sturdy oak had laid along Fell'd by DEATH'S surer hatchet, here lies SPONG. Posts oft he made, yet ne'er a place could get. And liv'd by railing, tho
Página 119 - Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship, of the Primitive Church,' 1691. ' History of the Apostles' Creed, with critical Observations on its several Articles.
Página 126 - In the earth below this tablet are the remains of James Thomson, author of the beautiful poems entitled 'The Seasons,' ' The Castle of Indolence,
Página 249 - Scio enim quod redemptor meus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et rursus circumdabor pelle mea, et in carne mea videbo Deum Salvatorem meum, quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi mei conspecturi sunt et non alius.
Página 111 - Her majesty," says a courtier, writing to Sir Robert Sidney, " is well and excellently disposed to hunting, for every second day she is on horseback and continues the sport...
Página 125 - Within this pleasing retirement, allured by the music of the nightingale, which warbled in soft unison to the melody of his soul, in unaffected cheerfulness, and genial though simple elegance, lived James Thomson.
Página 118 - And to an exact and complete knowledge in all parts and history of the Law, added the most extensive learning, Theological and Civil. He was chosen a member of the House of Commons in the year 1699 ; Recorder of the City of London in the year 1708 ; Made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1714, on the accession of King George I. ; Created LORD KING, BARON OF...

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