Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character IllustratedAppleton & Company, 1846 - 510 páginas |
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... written for more than one country . In spite of all these difficulties , this work was carried to a vast extent . An inder to the Journal des Scavans has been arranged on a critical plan , occupying ten volumes in quarto , which may be ...
... written for more than one country . In spite of all these difficulties , this work was carried to a vast extent . An inder to the Journal des Scavans has been arranged on a critical plan , occupying ten volumes in quarto , which may be ...
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... written paper , which his curiosity led him to examine . He was sufficiently interested to run out and search the fish market , till he found the manuscript out of which it had been torn . He published it under the title de Officio ...
... written paper , which his curiosity led him to examine . He was sufficiently interested to run out and search the fish market , till he found the manuscript out of which it had been torn . He published it under the title de Officio ...
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... written an entire trea- tise on the malignity of Herodotus . Xenophon and Quintus Curtius have been considered rather as novelists than historians ; and Tacitus has been censured for his audacity in pretending to discover the political ...
... written an entire trea- tise on the malignity of Herodotus . Xenophon and Quintus Curtius have been considered rather as novelists than historians ; and Tacitus has been censured for his audacity in pretending to discover the political ...
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... written , I pub . lishedCalamities of Authors , ' confining myself to those of our own country ; the catalogue is very incomplete , but far too numerous . IMPRISONMENT OF THE LEARNED . Imprisonment has not always disturbed the man of ...
... written , I pub . lishedCalamities of Authors , ' confining myself to those of our own country ; the catalogue is very incomplete , but far too numerous . IMPRISONMENT OF THE LEARNED . Imprisonment has not always disturbed the man of ...
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... writing his numerous works on art . This was the true life of an amateur . Granville Sharp , amidst the severities of his ... written an enlogium on the North Wind ; Heinsius , on the Ass ; Menage , the Transmigration of the Parasitical ...
... writing his numerous works on art . This was the true life of an amateur . Granville Sharp , amidst the severities of his ... written an enlogium on the North Wind ; Heinsius , on the Ass ; Menage , the Transmigration of the Parasitical ...
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Página 77 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 151 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Página 148 - Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace.
Página 152 - This chief transcends his father's fame : While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy.' He spoke, and fondly gazing on her charms, Restored the pleasing burden to her arms; Soft on her fragrant breast the babe she laid, Hush'd to repose, and with a smile survey'd.
Página 205 - ... in respect of its former scarceness and dearness, it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatments and entertainments, and presents made thereof to princes and grandees till the year 1657.
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 148 - Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun, He from the east his flaming road begin ; Or she from west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid ; Leave them to God above, him serve and fear.
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 283 - Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock...
Página 169 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.