Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character IllustratedAppleton & Company, 1846 - 510 עמודים |
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עמוד 19
... nature . month in writing a single letter . He affected to imitate Cicero . But although he has painfully attained to some- thing of the elegance of his style , he is still destitute of the native graces of unaffected composition . He ...
... nature . month in writing a single letter . He affected to imitate Cicero . But although he has painfully attained to some- thing of the elegance of his style , he is still destitute of the native graces of unaffected composition . He ...
עמוד 29
... nature has done for me , nor do I repine at fortune . lies ; I should feel a greater in communicating my discove- ries did not my prudence restrain me . Life is too short , according to my ideas , to read all kinds of books , and to ...
... nature has done for me , nor do I repine at fortune . lies ; I should feel a greater in communicating my discove- ries did not my prudence restrain me . Life is too short , according to my ideas , to read all kinds of books , and to ...
עמוד 31
... nature ; but they are not reconcilable to the feelings of the man of more generous dispositions , or who passes through life with the firm integrity of virtue . Even at court we find a Sully , a Malesherbes and a Clarendon , as well as ...
... nature ; but they are not reconcilable to the feelings of the man of more generous dispositions , or who passes through life with the firm integrity of virtue . Even at court we find a Sully , a Malesherbes and a Clarendon , as well as ...
עמוד 41
... nature hereunto congenerous ? C Fa ut may show me to be of an ordinary capacity , though good disposition . G Sol re ut , to be peevish and effemi- nate . Fluts , a manly or melancholic sadness . He who hath a voice which will in some ...
... nature hereunto congenerous ? C Fa ut may show me to be of an ordinary capacity , though good disposition . G Sol re ut , to be peevish and effemi- nate . Fluts , a manly or melancholic sadness . He who hath a voice which will in some ...
עמוד 48
... nature : -in public audiences he dressed like the meanest of the people , and affected to sit on an old broken chair , with a filthy dog on his knees . In an account found of his household , this majestic prince has a charge made him ...
... nature : -in public audiences he dressed like the meanest of the people , and affected to sit on an old broken chair , with a filthy dog on his knees . In an account found of his household , this majestic prince has a charge made him ...
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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.