Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... play with children ; Cato , over his bottle , found an alleviation from the fatigues of government ; a circumstance , he says in his manner , which rather gives honour to this defect , than the defect dishonours Cato . Some men of ...
... play with children ; Cato , over his bottle , found an alleviation from the fatigues of government ; a circumstance , he says in his manner , which rather gives honour to this defect , than the defect dishonours Cato . Some men of ...
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... play on words , concerning a little volume containing the works of Virgil , and which had his portrait prefixed to it . The volume and the characters must have been very diminu- tive . " Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ...
... play on words , concerning a little volume containing the works of Virgil , and which had his portrait prefixed to it . The volume and the characters must have been very diminu- tive . " Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ...
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... play , or a fine symphony to an opera , containing something analogous to the work itself ; so that we may feel its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified . The Italians call the preface La salsa del li- bro , the sauce of the ...
... play , or a fine symphony to an opera , containing something analogous to the work itself ; so that we may feel its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified . The Italians call the preface La salsa del li- bro , the sauce of the ...
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... play on musical instruments in his old age ; Cato , at eighty , thought proper to learn Greek ; and Plutarch , almost as late in life , Latin . Theophrastus began his admirable work on the Charac- ters of Men at the extreme age of ...
... play on musical instruments in his old age ; Cato , at eighty , thought proper to learn Greek ; and Plutarch , almost as late in life , Latin . Theophrastus began his admirable work on the Charac- ters of Men at the extreme age of ...
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... play on a lute , -I cannot fiddle , but I can make a little village a great city . ' The deficiencies of Addison in conversation are well known . He preserved a rigid silence amongst strangers : but if he was silent , it was the silence ...
... play on a lute , -I cannot fiddle , but I can make a little village a great city . ' The deficiencies of Addison in conversation are well known . He preserved a rigid silence amongst strangers : but if he was silent , it was the silence ...
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