Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... composed a treatise on his love of books , under the title of Philobiblion , an honourable tribute paid to literature , in an age not literary . To pass much of our time amid such vast re- sources , that man must indeed be not more ani ...
... composed a treatise on his love of books , under the title of Philobiblion , an honourable tribute paid to literature , in an age not literary . To pass much of our time amid such vast re- sources , that man must indeed be not more ani ...
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... composed in their respective re- tirements . Cicero must have been an early riser ; and practised that magic art of employing his time , so as to have multiplied his days . THE BIBLIOMANIA . THE preceding article is honourable to lite ...
... composed in their respective re- tirements . Cicero must have been an early riser ; and practised that magic art of employing his time , so as to have multiplied his days . THE BIBLIOMANIA . THE preceding article is honourable to lite ...
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... composed a biting invective against an ignorant possessor of a vast library . Like him , who in the present day , after turning over the pages of an old book , chiefly admires the date . LUCIAN compares him to a pilot , who was never ...
... composed a biting invective against an ignorant possessor of a vast library . Like him , who in the present day , after turning over the pages of an old book , chiefly admires the date . LUCIAN compares him to a pilot , who was never ...
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... composed by Prosper Marchand , Sal- lengre , Van Effen , who were then young writers . This list may be augmented by other journals , which sometimes merit preservation in the hi- story of modern literature . Our early English journals ...
... composed by Prosper Marchand , Sal- lengre , Van Effen , who were then young writers . This list may be augmented by other journals , which sometimes merit preservation in the hi- story of modern literature . Our early English journals ...
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... come down to us . Ælian notices Syagrus , who composed a poem on the Siege of Troy ; and Suidas the poem of Corinnus , from which it is said Homer greatly borrowed . Why did Plato so severely condemn the great SKETCHES OF CRITICISM . 39.
... come down to us . Ælian notices Syagrus , who composed a poem on the Siege of Troy ; and Suidas the poem of Corinnus , from which it is said Homer greatly borrowed . Why did Plato so severely condemn the great SKETCHES OF CRITICISM . 39.
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Página 258 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Página 147 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 57 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 160 - ... his surprise was increased by the appearance of a large cross, triumphantly erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the...
Página 159 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
Página 507 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 221 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand : he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Página 331 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Página 112 - I'm resolv'd to search for thee ; The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is), Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.
Página 500 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, over against St Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.