Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... turned them over with constant pleasure , derived accurate notions of works , which no student can himself have verified : of many works a notion is sufficient , but this notion is necessary . The origin of so many literary journals was ...
... turned them over with constant pleasure , derived accurate notions of works , which no student can himself have verified : of many works a notion is sufficient , but this notion is necessary . The origin of so many literary journals was ...
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... turned over in a few hours . An ingenious writer has observed , that a garden justumes ; and the portraits of eminent persons , who distin- accommodates itself to the perambulations of a scholar , who would perhaps rather wish his walks ...
... turned over in a few hours . An ingenious writer has observed , that a garden justumes ; and the portraits of eminent persons , who distin- accommodates itself to the perambulations of a scholar , who would perhaps rather wish his walks ...
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... turned from classical studies to the subtilties of school divinity , which Rome encouraged as more profitable for the main- tenance of her doctrines . It was a great misfortune to religion and to learning , that men of such acute under ...
... turned from classical studies to the subtilties of school divinity , which Rome encouraged as more profitable for the main- tenance of her doctrines . It was a great misfortune to religion and to learning , that men of such acute under ...
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... turned me to stone ; Praxiteles , from stone , restored me to life . " P. Commire , a pleasing writer of Latin verse , says of the flight of a butterfly , Florem , putares nare per liquidum æthera . It FLIES , and swims a flower in ...
... turned me to stone ; Praxiteles , from stone , restored me to life . " P. Commire , a pleasing writer of Latin verse , says of the flight of a butterfly , Florem , putares nare per liquidum æthera . It FLIES , and swims a flower in ...
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... turning to the Pope's Nuncio , who was present , very coarsely exclaimed - Cadedis ! ce Monsieur a un flux enragé , il ... turned author ; the prudent wool - seller had never been the celebrated poet . ' Accident determined the taste of ...
... turning to the Pope's Nuncio , who was present , very coarsely exclaimed - Cadedis ! ce Monsieur a un flux enragé , il ... turned author ; the prudent wool - seller had never been the celebrated poet . ' Accident determined the taste of ...
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