"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... late as the time of Bacon , this great man did not consider his Moral Essays as likely to last in the moveable sands of a modern lan- guage , for he as anxiously had them sculptured in the mar ble of ancient Rome . Yet what had the ...
... late as the time of Bacon , this great man did not consider his Moral Essays as likely to last in the moveable sands of a modern lan- guage , for he as anxiously had them sculptured in the mar ble of ancient Rome . Yet what had the ...
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... late , but an ardent pursuit with this celebrated man ; and their actual enjoyment seems with him rather to have been connected with some future plan of life . Cicero , when about forty three years of age , seems to have projected the ...
... late , but an ardent pursuit with this celebrated man ; and their actual enjoyment seems with him rather to have been connected with some future plan of life . Cicero , when about forty three years of age , seems to have projected the ...
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... late Duke of Bridgewater , I am informed , burnt many of the numerous family papers , and bricked up a quantity , which , when opened after his death , were found to have perished . It is said he declared that he did not choose that his ...
... late Duke of Bridgewater , I am informed , burnt many of the numerous family papers , and bricked up a quantity , which , when opened after his death , were found to have perished . It is said he declared that he did not choose that his ...
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... late there appears a tenden- cy to return to the notion which is consecrated by antiquity . Experience will often correct modern hypothesists . The term ' pre - disposition may be objectionable , as are all terms * Beanie on Poetry and ...
... late there appears a tenden- cy to return to the notion which is consecrated by antiquity . Experience will often correct modern hypothesists . The term ' pre - disposition may be objectionable , as are all terms * Beanie on Poetry and ...
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... late Joseph Walker , an enthusiast for an Italian literature , dedicated his Memoir on Italian Tragedy ' to the Countess Spencer : not inscribing it with his christian but his heathen name , and the title of his Arca dian estates ...
... late Joseph Walker , an enthusiast for an Italian literature , dedicated his Memoir on Italian Tragedy ' to the Countess Spencer : not inscribing it with his christian but his heathen name , and the title of his Arca dian estates ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.