Curiosities of Literature, Volym 4J. Murray, 1823 |
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... original . - So that if of this number many wrote alike , the judges must have been much puzzled to fix on the criminal . Our hours of refection are singularly changed in little more than two centuries . In the reign of Francis I ...
... original . - So that if of this number many wrote alike , the judges must have been much puzzled to fix on the criminal . Our hours of refection are singularly changed in little more than two centuries . In the reign of Francis I ...
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... " Something very wild and original appears in this singular exhibition ; where at times the actors seem to have been spectators , and the spectators were actors . THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS . As a literary curiosity THE EARLY DRAMA . 37.
... " Something very wild and original appears in this singular exhibition ; where at times the actors seem to have been spectators , and the spectators were actors . THE MARRIAGE OF THE ARTS . As a literary curiosity THE EARLY DRAMA . 37.
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... original manner , has , in the most glowing language , expressed his affectionate sen- timents . He says , " My time of learning was employed in business ; but , after all , I have the Greek and Latin tongues , because a part of me 62 ...
... original manner , has , in the most glowing language , expressed his affectionate sen- timents . He says , " My time of learning was employed in business ; but , after all , I have the Greek and Latin tongues , because a part of me 62 ...
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... original : I proceed to relate the narrative of the Jews of York . When Richard I. ascended the throne , the Jews , to conciliate the royal protection , brought their tributes . Many had hastened from remote parts of England , and ...
... original : I proceed to relate the narrative of the Jews of York . When Richard I. ascended the throne , the Jews , to conciliate the royal protection , brought their tributes . Many had hastened from remote parts of England , and ...
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... original мs . The same facility accompanied Gibbon after the experience of his first volume ; and the same copious readi- ness attended Adam Smith , who dictated to his amanuensis , while he walked about his study . The ancients were as ...
... original мs . The same facility accompanied Gibbon after the experience of his first volume ; and the same copious readi- ness attended Adam Smith , who dictated to his amanuensis , while he walked about his study . The ancients were as ...
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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...