Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... beautiful , or the most curious parts of a new work brought together ; they wished for the unreasonable entertainment of railing and raillery . At length another objection was conjured up against the re- view ; mathematicians complained ...
... beautiful , or the most curious parts of a new work brought together ; they wished for the unreasonable entertainment of railing and raillery . At length another objection was conjured up against the re- view ; mathematicians complained ...
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... beautiful CABINET , whose situation he has described with all its amenity . Paulus Jovius had a country house , in an insular situa- tion of a most romantic aspect . It was built on the ruins of the villa of Pliny ; and in his time the ...
... beautiful CABINET , whose situation he has described with all its amenity . Paulus Jovius had a country house , in an insular situa- tion of a most romantic aspect . It was built on the ruins of the villa of Pliny ; and in his time the ...
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... beautiful description of Milton , who marks it by a continuous motion , Smooth - sliding without step . ' The reader desirous of being merry with Aquina's angels may find them in Martilus Scriblerus , in Ch . VII . , who inquires if ...
... beautiful description of Milton , who marks it by a continuous motion , Smooth - sliding without step . ' The reader desirous of being merry with Aquina's angels may find them in Martilus Scriblerus , in Ch . VII . , who inquires if ...
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... beautiful when dressed ; yet not less beautiful when undress- ed . Of two beauties he says , they yielded to the Graces only in number . ' Menage has these two terse and pointed lines on the por- trait of a lady- ' Ce portrait resemble ...
... beautiful when dressed ; yet not less beautiful when undress- ed . Of two beauties he says , they yielded to the Graces only in number . ' Menage has these two terse and pointed lines on the por- trait of a lady- ' Ce portrait resemble ...
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... beautiful a version of Camoens ' Lusiad , having dedicated this work , the continued labour of five years , to the Duke of Buc- cleugh , had the mortification to find , by the discovery of a friend , that he had kept it in his ...
... beautiful a version of Camoens ' Lusiad , having dedicated this work , the continued labour of five years , to the Duke of Buc- cleugh , had the mortification to find , by the discovery of a friend , that he had kept it in his ...
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