"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... Lord Brouncker , the first president , and Lord Bacon , as the founder , inscribed Artium Instaurator . The graver of Hollar has preserved this happy intention of Evelyn's , which exemplifies what may be called the continuity and ...
... Lord Brouncker , the first president , and Lord Bacon , as the founder , inscribed Artium Instaurator . The graver of Hollar has preserved this happy intention of Evelyn's , which exemplifies what may be called the continuity and ...
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... lords who had served my father and my brothers ; some plunged in up to the hair of their heads , others to their ... Lord who reigneth over the living and the dead , and whose kingdom endureth for ever and for aye , will perform when ...
... lords who had served my father and my brothers ; some plunged in up to the hair of their heads , others to their ... Lord who reigneth over the living and the dead , and whose kingdom endureth for ever and for aye , will perform when ...
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... Lord Herbert's history of Henry the Eighth , I find , by a manuscript note , that several things were not permitted ... Lord Bute's - alter some time Miss Forrester put in her claims for the MSS and the whole terminated , as Thicknesse ...
... Lord Herbert's history of Henry the Eighth , I find , by a manuscript note , that several things were not permitted ... Lord Bute's - alter some time Miss Forrester put in her claims for the MSS and the whole terminated , as Thicknesse ...
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... Lord Tho- mas Fairfax one day found the archbishop , very me- lancholy , and inquired the reason of his grace's pensive- ness : My lord , ' said the archbishop , I have great reason of sorrow with respect of my sons ; one of whom has ...
... Lord Tho- mas Fairfax one day found the archbishop , very me- lancholy , and inquired the reason of his grace's pensive- ness : My lord , ' said the archbishop , I have great reason of sorrow with respect of my sons ; one of whom has ...
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... Lord , to revenge my quarrel , ' to the air of a dance of Poitou . * - We may conceive the ardour with which this novelty was received , for Francis sent to Charles the Fifth Marot's collection , who both by promises and presents ...
... Lord , to revenge my quarrel , ' to the air of a dance of Poitou . * - We may conceive the ardour with which this novelty was received , for Francis sent to Charles the Fifth Marot's collection , who both by promises and presents ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 243 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Página 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish ; By a power to thee unknown, Thou canst never be alone ; Thou art wrapt as with a shroud, Thou art gathered in a cloud ; And for ever shalt thou dwell In the spirit of this spell.
Página 301 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Página 82 - ... due observation, I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking — of tavern or ale-house drinking.
Página 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Página 321 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Página 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Página 23 - Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But, after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence.
Página 18 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Página 407 - my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.