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 31
עמוד 6
... probably had no idea that he was about effecting a revolution in our libraries , and founding a new province in the dominion of human knowledge ; creative genius often is itself the creature of its own age : it is but that re - action ...
... probably had no idea that he was about effecting a revolution in our libraries , and founding a new province in the dominion of human knowledge ; creative genius often is itself the creature of its own age : it is but that re - action ...
עמוד 31
... probably a late , but an ardent pursuit with this celebrated man ; and their actual enjoyment seems with him rather to have been connected with some future plan of life . CICERO , when about forty - three years of age Cicero viewed as a ...
... probably a late , but an ardent pursuit with this celebrated man ; and their actual enjoyment seems with him rather to have been connected with some future plan of life . CICERO , when about forty - three years of age Cicero viewed as a ...
עמוד 56
... probably more philosophical , and more congenial to our modes of thinking ! The congregating spirit creates by its sympathy ; an intercourse exists between its members , which had not otherwise occurred ; in this attrition of minds the ...
... probably more philosophical , and more congenial to our modes of thinking ! The congregating spirit creates by its sympathy ; an intercourse exists between its members , which had not otherwise occurred ; in this attrition of minds the ...
עמוד 62
... probably for a frontispiece to Bishop Sprat's history , although we seldom find the print in the volume . The design is precious to a Grangerite , exhibiting three fine portraits . On one side is represented a library , and on the table ...
... probably for a frontispiece to Bishop Sprat's history , although we seldom find the print in the volume . The design is precious to a Grangerite , exhibiting three fine portraits . On one side is represented a library , and on the table ...
עמוד 103
... probably attended Alex- ander in his descent into Italy , brings forward the great commanders he would have had to encounter ; he compares Alexander with each , and at length terminates his fears , and claims his WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED ...
... probably attended Alex- ander in his descent into Italy , brings forward the great commanders he would have had to encounter ; he compares Alexander with each , and at length terminates his fears , and claims his WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED ...
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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.