Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character IllustratedAppleton & Company, 1846 - 510 עמודים |
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עמוד 2
... honour which many writers at home have conferred on it , by referring to it , has exhilarated the zealous labour which seven editions have necessarily exacted . The late William Seward , Esq . , and James Pettit Andrews , Esq ...
... honour which many writers at home have conferred on it , by referring to it , has exhilarated the zealous labour which seven editions have necessarily exacted . The late William Seward , Esq . , and James Pettit Andrews , Esq ...
עמוד 3
... honour . The taste for books , so rare before the fifteenth century , has gradually become general only within these four hun- dred years ; in that small space of time the public mind of Europe has been created . Of LIBRARIES , the ...
... honour . The taste for books , so rare before the fifteenth century , has gradually become general only within these four hun- dred years ; in that small space of time the public mind of Europe has been created . Of LIBRARIES , the ...
עמוד 10
... honour , than for the hope of being sheltered by it from the thunder of the priests , by whom both he and his brother poets were continually threatened . They could not imagine a poet , without supposing him to hold an intercourse with ...
... honour , than for the hope of being sheltered by it from the thunder of the priests , by whom both he and his brother poets were continually threatened . They could not imagine a poet , without supposing him to hold an intercourse with ...
עמוד 13
... honour of having introduced it into Rome . In consecrating a library with the portraits of our illustrious authors ... honours in a few concise verses of his own composition . It was by the contemplation of two of these portraits ( Old ...
... honour of having introduced it into Rome . In consecrating a library with the portraits of our illustrious authors ... honours in a few concise verses of his own composition . It was by the contemplation of two of these portraits ( Old ...
עמוד 30
... honour to some of our living writers , we must acknowledge that the great defects of all her works arise from her not wri- ting in an age when taste had reached the acme of cultiva- tion . Such is her erudition that the French place her ...
... honour to some of our living writers , we must acknowledge that the great defects of all her works arise from her not wri- ting in an age when taste had reached the acme of cultiva- tion . Such is her erudition that the French place her ...
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עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 9 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 283 - Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock...
עמוד 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.