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 37
עמוד 17
... poet who had celebrated this obscure river ; it was a Pleasure of Memory ! " a tender associ- ation of domestic feeling ! 66 The first step which BAYLE took in life is re- markable . He changed his religion and became a Catholic ; a ...
... poet who had celebrated this obscure river ; it was a Pleasure of Memory ! " a tender associ- ation of domestic feeling ! 66 The first step which BAYLE took in life is re- markable . He changed his religion and became a Catholic ; a ...
עמוד 44
... poet , of the most polished elegance , the most enchanting conversation , far removed from the vulgar , he became the compa- nion of the learned and the noble . Annibale could scarcely write and read ; an inborn ruggedness made him ...
... poet , of the most polished elegance , the most enchanting conversation , far removed from the vulgar , he became the compa- nion of the learned and the noble . Annibale could scarcely write and read ; an inborn ruggedness made him ...
עמוד 84
... poet ; and it will illustrate the useful principle , that every great genius is influenced by the objects and the feelings which occupy his own times , only differ- ing from the race of his brothers by the magical force of his ...
... poet ; and it will illustrate the useful principle , that every great genius is influenced by the objects and the feelings which occupy his own times , only differ- ing from the race of his brothers by the magical force of his ...
עמוד 86
... poet could never have done . It is one of the absurdities of DANTE , who , like our Shakspeare , or like Gothic architecture itself , has many things which " lead to nothing " amidst their massive greatness . Had the Italian and the ...
... poet could never have done . It is one of the absurdities of DANTE , who , like our Shakspeare , or like Gothic architecture itself , has many things which " lead to nothing " amidst their massive greatness . Had the Italian and the ...
עמוד 88
... poet , that the writer must have read DANTE , or DANTE must have read this writer . The manuscript , with another of the same kind , is in the King's library at Paris , and some future re- searcher may ascertain the age of these Gothic ...
... poet , that the writer must have read DANTE , or DANTE must have read this writer . The manuscript , with another of the same kind , is in the King's library at Paris , and some future re- searcher may ascertain the age of these Gothic ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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.