Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character IllustratedR. Worthington, 1851 - 509 páginas |
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... proverb peculiar to his county , The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still . ' But how has it happened that this vicar should be so notorious , and one in much higher rank , acting the same part should have escaped notice ? Dr ...
... proverb peculiar to his county , The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still . ' But how has it happened that this vicar should be so notorious , and one in much higher rank , acting the same part should have escaped notice ? Dr ...
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... proverbs . His compa- risons and figures were always borrowed from the most familiar and lowest things . To ridicule effectually the reigning vices , he willingly employed quirks or puns ra- ther than sublime thoughts , and he was ...
... proverbs . His compa- risons and figures were always borrowed from the most familiar and lowest things . To ridicule effectually the reigning vices , he willingly employed quirks or puns ra- ther than sublime thoughts , and he was ...
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... Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two hundred lines , the greatest part of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E an instance of his lordship's hard application , and the bad taste of an age which , Lord Orford ...
... Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two hundred lines , the greatest part of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E an instance of his lordship's hard application , and the bad taste of an age which , Lord Orford ...
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... proverb , It is better to be envied than pitied ; for I know well that it is merely out of spite and malice , whereof this present age is so full that none can escape them , and they'll make no doubt to stain even your lordship's loyal ...
... proverb , It is better to be envied than pitied ; for I know well that it is merely out of spite and malice , whereof this present age is so full that none can escape them , and they'll make no doubt to stain even your lordship's loyal ...
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... proverbs , till after drinking freely , they discover that their fools ' caps want the right ear . They call on their old grandmother Sottie ( or Folly , ) who advises them to take up some trade . She introduces this progeny of her ...
... proverbs , till after drinking freely , they discover that their fools ' caps want the right ear . They call on their old grandmother Sottie ( or Folly , ) who advises them to take up some trade . She introduces this progeny of her ...
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Página 150 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard, apart, Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Página 193 - Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.
Página 100 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 181 - ... before him ; if in this the most consummate act of his fidelity and ripeness, no years, no industry, no former proof of his abilities can bring him to that state of maturity, as not to be still mistrusted and suspected, unless he carry all his considerate diligence, all his midnight watchings, and expense of Palladian oil, to the hasty view of an unleisured licenser, perhaps much his younger, perhaps far his inferior in judgment, perhaps one who never knew the labour of bookwriting...
Página 9 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 181 - When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him. He searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends; after all which done, he takes himself to be informed in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him.
Página 122 - God's sake, when shall I see thee again ? On my soul I shall neither eat nor sleep until you come again. The earl told him on Monday (this being on the Friday). For God's sake let me...
Página 150 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Página 148 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 261 - Thus accoutred, the Lady Arabella stole out with a gentleman about three o'clock in the afternoon. She...