A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of Researches in Literary, Biographical, and Political History; of Critical and Philosophical Inquiries; and of Secret History, כרך 1J. Murray, 1824 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 22
עמוד 16
... happy ; and when I think that my happi- ness would be all your joy , I should lament that my bad fortune should continue to persecute me ; though , as to my own particular interest , I dare promise to myself that I shall never be very ...
... happy ; and when I think that my happi- ness would be all your joy , I should lament that my bad fortune should continue to persecute me ; though , as to my own particular interest , I dare promise to myself that I shall never be very ...
עמוד 34
... happy union of exercise and study . " Continue , " he adds , " to collect for me , as you have promised , in as great a quantity as possible , morsels of this kind . " Cicero , like other collectors , may be suspected not to have been ...
... happy union of exercise and study . " Continue , " he adds , " to collect for me , as you have promised , in as great a quantity as possible , morsels of this kind . " Cicero , like other collectors , may be suspected not to have been ...
עמוד 39
... happy boldness in the idea ; but its great singularity was that of discovering those men of genius , who alone could realize his ideal concep- tion , amidst his own family circle ; and yet these were men whose opposite dispositions and ...
... happy boldness in the idea ; but its great singularity was that of discovering those men of genius , who alone could realize his ideal concep- tion , amidst his own family circle ; and yet these were men whose opposite dispositions and ...
עמוד 42
... happy project of Lodovico ! Every perfection seemed to have been obtained : the Raffaeleschi excelled in the ideal ; the Michelangioleschi in the anatomical ; the Venetian and the Lombard schools in brilliant vivacity or philosophic gra ...
... happy project of Lodovico ! Every perfection seemed to have been obtained : the Raffaeleschi excelled in the ideal ; the Michelangioleschi in the anatomical ; the Venetian and the Lombard schools in brilliant vivacity or philosophic gra ...
עמוד 43
... happy toil , Did Annibal compose his wondrous style ; O'er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown , That every borrow'd grace becomes his own * . Lodovico perceived that he could not stand alone in the breach , and single - handed ...
... happy toil , Did Annibal compose his wondrous style ; O'er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown , That every borrow'd grace becomes his own * . Lodovico perceived that he could not stand alone in the breach , and single - handed ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abbé academy Agostino amidst amusing ancient Annibale ANTHONY COLLINS antiquary antiquity appears Arabella Stuart Aulus Gellius Bacon BAYLE Ben Jonson body burlesque called Caraccis character Charles Cicero circumstance COKE collection Collins court critical curious DANTE delight Dictionary discovered elegant English expression father favour favourite folio formed France French genius historian honour Hudibras human humour imagined Inigo Jones invention Italian Italy James Jonson king labours Lady Arabella language learned letter literary literature lived Lodovico Lord Lord Bacon MAIZEAUX majesty manuscript Marolles Marot marriage Masque mind modern nature never Niceron observes occasion original parody party perhaps persons philosophical Plutarch poet political preserved printed proverbs Psalms racter Raynaud ridicule royal says scene secret history seems society spirit style taste thing Thomas Warton tion translation truth verse volumes words writer written
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 312 - Thou art an odious fellow, thy name is hateful to all the realm of England for thy pride.
עמוד 140 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
עמוד 246 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name...
עמוד 269 - Arabella's epistolary talent was not vulgar : Dr. Montford, in a manuscript letter, describes one of those effusions which Arabella addressed to the king. " This letter was penned by her in the best terms, as she can do right well. It was often read without offence, nay it was even commended by his highness, with the applause of prince and council.
עמוד 343 - I never counted among my honours these ojmscula of mine, but merely as harmless amusements. It is my "partridge, as with St. John the Evangelist; my cat, as with Pope St. Gregory ; my little dog, as with St. Dominick; my lamb, as with St. Francis ; my great black mastiff, as with Cornelius Agrippa ; and my tame hare, as with Justus Lipsius.
עמוד 312 - Nay, I will prove all : thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart.
עמוד 160 - Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes : Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes ; Et ce choix sert de preuve à tous les courtisans Qu'ils savent mal payer les services présents.
עמוד 353 - Look back and see The strange vicissitudes of poetrie : Your aged fathers came to plays for wit, And sat knee-deep in nut-shells in the pit.
עמוד 206 - thinking thereby,' says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood, ' that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted.
עמוד 261 - A great ambassador is coming from the King of Poland, whose chief errand is to demand my Lady Arabella in marriage for his master. So may your princess of the blood grow a great queen, and then we shall be safe from the danger of missuperscribing letters."* This last passage seems to allude to something.