...English literature, with the single exception of romances and plays for daily use. In France, then, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the higher kinds of poetry were cultivated in a manner too regular and precise, and gradually sunk into...

...Shaw, Donovan, and even Montagu. This is the more surprising, as the eminent naturalists who ilorished towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of...which their descriptions abounded. The writings of Willoughby, Ray, and Ellis, furnish very striking examples. But descriptions are daily becoming more...

...characteristic appearances of the shape. Such, generally, are the descriptions of Pennant, Shaw, Donovan, and even Montagu. This is the more surprising, as...which their descriptions abounded. The writings of Willoughby, R;ty and Ellis, furnish very striking examples. But descriptions are daily becoming more...

...the small • The Parliamentary History will show that two of Lord K.'s ancestors sat in parliament towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, for Clitheroe and Wigan. t An ancestor of Lord Kenyon's was deputy governor of the Islu of Man, under...

...quick dance in triple time. In Handel's, Mattheson's, and other lessons for the harpsichord, composed towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, a Couranle is generally introduced as one of the movements. COURCELLES. [HAINAULT.] COURIER, from the...

...much extravagance it may be, were, nevertheless, instrumental in reviving vital religion in Germany towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The Lutherans have since that time had to struggle with infidelity, rationalism, and utter indifference...

...differing but little from each other. The fruit of these manifold attempts, which arose particularly towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, is the temperate scale, which reached its full development at the middle of the last century, especially...

...differing but little from each other. The fruit of these manifold attempts, which arose particularly towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, is the temperate scale, which reached its full development at the middle of the last century, especially...

...end of the seventeenth century. Two rival makers, Straduarius and Guarnerius, appeared to the Amatis towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Be the acoustical explanation what it may, the curved form seems essential to any satisfactory tone...

...mother country was precisely the period when the mother country became less " subject to Rome," z>. towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, in the age of Voltaire, of Pombal, of Choiseul, and of Mirabeau, of the Encyclopaedists, and the persecutors...