Curiosities of Literature, Volym 4J. Murray, 1823 |
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... hands 109 Popes 113 Literary composition 117 Poetical imitations and similarities 130 Explanation of the fac - simile 161 Literary fashions 166 The pantomimical characters 172 Extempore comedies Massinger , Milton , and the Italian theatre.
... hands 109 Popes 113 Literary composition 117 Poetical imitations and similarities 130 Explanation of the fac - simile 161 Literary fashions 166 The pantomimical characters 172 Extempore comedies Massinger , Milton , and the Italian theatre.
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Isaac Disraeli. Extempore comedies Massinger , Milton , and the Italian theatre Songs of trades , or songs for the people Introducers of exotic flowers , fruits , etc. Usurers of the seventeenth century Chidiock Titchbourne Elizabeth and ...
Isaac Disraeli. Extempore comedies Massinger , Milton , and the Italian theatre Songs of trades , or songs for the people Introducers of exotic flowers , fruits , etc. Usurers of the seventeenth century Chidiock Titchbourne Elizabeth and ...
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... Italy , about 1642 , he saw some of those waxen tablets , called Pugillares , so called because they were held in one hand ; and others composed of the barks of trees , which the ancients employed in lieu of paper . On these tablets ...
... Italy , about 1642 , he saw some of those waxen tablets , called Pugillares , so called because they were held in one hand ; and others composed of the barks of trees , which the ancients employed in lieu of paper . On these tablets ...
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... Italy , France , and Germany , which might be lessened were it made in our nation . To such who object that we can never equal the perfection of Venice - paper , I return , neither can we match the purity of Venice - glasses ; and yet ...
... Italy , France , and Germany , which might be lessened were it made in our nation . To such who object that we can never equal the perfection of Venice - paper , I return , neither can we match the purity of Venice - glasses ; and yet ...
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... Italian neighbours . " The following is an amusing anecdote of the difficulty in which an honest Vicar of Bray found himself in those contentious times . When the court of Rome , under the pontificates of Gregory IX . and Innocent IV ...
... Italian neighbours . " The following is an amusing anecdote of the difficulty in which an honest Vicar of Bray found himself in those contentious times . When the court of Rome , under the pontificates of Gregory IX . and Innocent IV ...
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Sida 146 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Sida 144 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Sida 160 - 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...
Sida 135 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Sida 154 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Sida 218 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Sida 149 - 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.
Sida 166 - This Chief transcends his Father's Fame : While pleas'd amidst the gen'ral Shouts of Troy, His Mother's conscious Heart o'erflows with Joy. He spoke, and fondly gazing on her Charms Restor'd 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 The troubled Pleasure soon chastis'd by Fear, She mingled with the Smile a tender Tear.
Sida 153 - Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.
Sida 159 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...