Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... thought him too dry ; and , if we may trust Eschines , his language is by no means pure , The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius and the Deipnoso- phists of Athenæus , while they have been extolled by one party , have been degraded by ...
... thought him too dry ; and , if we may trust Eschines , his language is by no means pure , The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius and the Deipnoso- phists of Athenæus , while they have been extolled by one party , have been degraded by ...
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... thought I had any just cause to be angry with the world - I did always in my judgment give the possession of wisdom the preference to that of riches ! Spenser , the child of Fancy , languished out his life in misery . " Lord Burleigh ...
... thought I had any just cause to be angry with the world - I did always in my judgment give the possession of wisdom the preference to that of riches ! Spenser , the child of Fancy , languished out his life in misery . " Lord Burleigh ...
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... thought as drunken a man as Erasmus was a foolish one . Synesius composed a Greek panegyric on Baldness ; these burlesques were brought into great vogue by Erasmus's More Encomium . It seems , Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas ...
... thought as drunken a man as Erasmus was a foolish one . Synesius composed a Greek panegyric on Baldness ; these burlesques were brought into great vogue by Erasmus's More Encomium . It seems , Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas ...
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... thought is in Donne . Perhaps Cowley did not suspect , that he was an imitator . Fontenelle could not have read either ; he struck out the thought by his own reflection ; it is very just . Glauber searched long and deeply for the ...
... thought is in Donne . Perhaps Cowley did not suspect , that he was an imitator . Fontenelle could not have read either ; he struck out the thought by his own reflection ; it is very just . Glauber searched long and deeply for the ...
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... thought , observes Monnoye , has been employed by seven or eight modern writers . Seneca , amongst many strained sentiments , and trivial points , has frequently a happy thought . As this on anger : I wish that the ferocity of this ...
... thought , observes Monnoye , has been employed by seven or eight modern writers . Seneca , amongst many strained sentiments , and trivial points , has frequently a happy thought . As this on anger : I wish that the ferocity of this ...
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