Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... eyes rejoicing please , You my hands in rapture seize ! Brilliant wits and musing sages , Lights who beam'd through many ages ! Left to your conscious leaves their story , And dared to trust you with their glory ; And now their hope of ...
... eyes rejoicing please , You my hands in rapture seize ! Brilliant wits and musing sages , Lights who beam'd through many ages ! Left to your conscious leaves their story , And dared to trust you with their glory ; And now their hope of ...
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... eyes like eastern beau- ties peering through their jealousies ! BRUYERE has touched on this mania with hu- mour : " Of such a collector , " says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair- case , from a strong ...
... eyes like eastern beau- ties peering through their jealousies ! BRUYERE has touched on this mania with hu- mour : " Of such a collector , " says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair- case , from a strong ...
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... eyes under his enormous helmet , and his hunch - back raising the cuirass above his shoulders . Why do you buy so many books ? he says : -you have no hair , and you pur- chase a comb ; you are blind , and you will have a grand mirror ...
... eyes under his enormous helmet , and his hunch - back raising the cuirass above his shoulders . Why do you buy so many books ? he says : -you have no hair , and you pur- chase a comb ; you are blind , and you will have a grand mirror ...
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... eyes are fatigued in reading a work , the more liberty the mind feels to judge of it and as we perceive more clearly the excel- lencies and defects of a printed book than when in Ms .; so we see them more plainly in good paper and clear ...
... eyes are fatigued in reading a work , the more liberty the mind feels to judge of it and as we perceive more clearly the excel- lencies and defects of a printed book than when in Ms .; so we see them more plainly in good paper and clear ...
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... eyes " Non avendo candele per iscrivere i suoi versi ! " having no candle to see to write his verses ! When the liberality of Alphonso enabled Ari- osto to build a small house , it seems that it was but ill furnished . When told that ...
... eyes " Non avendo candele per iscrivere i suoi versi ! " having no candle to see to write his verses ! When the liberality of Alphonso enabled Ari- osto to build a small house , it seems that it was but ill furnished . When told that ...
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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.