Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... composed a treatise on his love of books , under the title of Philobiblion , ' an honourable bute paid to literature , in an age not literary . on the continent , about 1440. It is a circumstance worthy observation , that the French ...
... composed a treatise on his love of books , under the title of Philobiblion , ' an honourable bute paid to literature , in an age not literary . on the continent , about 1440. It is a circumstance worthy observation , that the French ...
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... composed by Prosper March- and , Sallengre , Van Effen , who were then young writers . This list may be augmented by other journals , which sometimes merit preservation in the history of modern literature . Our early English journals ...
... composed by Prosper March- and , Sallengre , Van Effen , who were then young writers . This list may be augmented by other journals , which sometimes merit preservation in the history of modern literature . Our early English journals ...
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... composed a poem on the Siege of Troy ; and Suidas the poem of Corinnus , from which it is said Homer greatly borrowed . Why did Plato so severely condemn the great bard , and imitate him ? Sophocles was brought to trial by his children ...
... composed a poem on the Siege of Troy ; and Suidas the poem of Corinnus , from which it is said Homer greatly borrowed . Why did Plato so severely condemn the great bard , and imitate him ? Sophocles was brought to trial by his children ...
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... composed more than four hun- dred volumes , has not been less spared by the critics ; Diogenes Laertius , Cicero , and Plutarch , have forgotten nothing that can tend to show his ignorance , his ambition , and his vanity . It has been ...
... composed more than four hun- dred volumes , has not been less spared by the critics ; Diogenes Laertius , Cicero , and Plutarch , have forgotten nothing that can tend to show his ignorance , his ambition , and his vanity . It has been ...
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... composed his excellent Paraphrases of the Psalms of David . Cervantes composed the most agreeable book in the Spanish language during his captivity in Barbary . Fleta , a well known law production , was written by a person confined in ...
... composed his excellent Paraphrases of the Psalms of David . Cervantes composed the most agreeable book in the Spanish language during his captivity in Barbary . Fleta , a well known law production , was written by a person confined in ...
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