Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... says Plutarch , " whose walks , galleries , and cabinets , were open to all visitors ; and the ingenious Greeks , when at leisure , resorted to this abode of the Muses to hold literary conversations , in which Lucullus himself loved to ...
... says Plutarch , " whose walks , galleries , and cabinets , were open to all visitors ; and the ingenious Greeks , when at leisure , resorted to this abode of the Muses to hold literary conversations , in which Lucullus himself loved to ...
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... says Tira- boschi , was founded by a person of no consider- able fortune : his credit , his frugality , and forti- tude , were indeed equal to a treasury . This extraordinary man was Nicholas Niccoli , the son of a merchant , and in his ...
... says Tira- boschi , was founded by a person of no consider- able fortune : his credit , his frugality , and forti- tude , were indeed equal to a treasury . This extraordinary man was Nicholas Niccoli , the son of a merchant , and in his ...
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... says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair- case , from a strong smell of Morocco leather : in vain he shows me fine editions , gold leaves , Etruscan bindings , & c . naming them one after another , as if ...
... says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair- case , from a strong smell of Morocco leather : in vain he shows me fine editions , gold leaves , Etruscan bindings , & c . naming them one after another , as if ...
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... says : -you have no hair , and you pur- chase a comb ; you are blind , and you will have a grand mirror ; you are deaf , and you will have fine musical instruments ! Your costly bindings are only a source of vexation , and you are con ...
... says : -you have no hair , and you pur- chase a comb ; you are blind , and you will have a grand mirror ; you are deaf , and you will have fine musical instruments ! Your costly bindings are only a source of vexation , and you are con ...
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... says he , till it is reprinted , show plainly that they are resigned to their igno- rance , and prefer the saving of a pistole to the acquisition of useful knowledge . With one of these persons , who waited for a second edition , which ...
... says he , till it is reprinted , show plainly that they are resigned to their igno- rance , and prefer the saving of a pistole to the acquisition of useful knowledge . With one of these persons , who waited for a second edition , which ...
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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.