"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... passed the ordeals he had to through ; we must now consider him as the historiar our thoughts as well as of our actions ; he dispenses literary stores of the moderns , in that vast repository their wisdom and their follies , which , by ...
... passed the ordeals he had to through ; we must now consider him as the historiar our thoughts as well as of our actions ; he dispenses literary stores of the moderns , in that vast repository their wisdom and their follies , which , by ...
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... passed through the mind , as well as the pen of the writer , will be still open to the fatal objection of insane industry raging with a depraved appetite for trash and cinders ; and this is the line of demarcation which will for ever ...
... passed through the mind , as well as the pen of the writer , will be still open to the fatal objection of insane industry raging with a depraved appetite for trash and cinders ; and this is the line of demarcation which will for ever ...
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... passed away , inso- much that Dr. Beattie once considered that he was obli- ging the world by collecting Addison's papers , and care- fully omitting Steele's . Quotation , like much better things , has its abuses . One may quote till ...
... passed away , inso- much that Dr. Beattie once considered that he was obli- ging the world by collecting Addison's papers , and care- fully omitting Steele's . Quotation , like much better things , has its abuses . One may quote till ...
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... passed ; but that of an event which did not happen , would be the result of this famous conflict , had the Mahometan power triumphed ! The Mahometan dominion had predominated through Europe ! The imagination is startled when it ...
... passed ; but that of an event which did not happen , would be the result of this famous conflict , had the Mahometan power triumphed ! The Mahometan dominion had predominated through Europe ! The imagination is startled when it ...
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... passed over , and not entered into the catalogue ; his own digent eye only had detected its existence . Nessuno fin ora sa , fuori di me , se vi sia , ne dove sia , e cosi non potra darsi alla luce , ' & c . But in the true spirit of a ...
... passed over , and not entered into the catalogue ; his own digent eye only had detected its existence . Nessuno fin ora sa , fuori di me , se vi sia , ne dove sia , e cosi non potra darsi alla luce , ' & c . But in the true spirit of a ...
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards amidst amusing ancient apoplexy appears awake Bayle become Ben Jonson Bishop body brain called cause Charles Cicero circumstance Coke curious death declared delight discovered dreams drunkards drunkenness duke Duke of Anjou effect English excited existence eyes fact fancy favour favourite feelings France French genius George Steevens give habit hand historian honour Hudibras human imagination invention Italian Italy Jesuits king labour lady learned letter liquor literary character literature lived Lord Lord Bacon Magius manuscript masques ment mind nation nature never Niceron night observed occasion Oldys opium original parliament party passion person Petrarch philosopher Plutarch poet political preserved principle produced proverbs queen racter Rawleigh remarkable says scene secret history seems Shenstone sleep society sometimes somnambulism spirit taste thing thought tion truth volume words writing
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.