Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... Thoughts , some ingenious - 354 196 T. · 199 124 Trials in superstitious ages 280 Titles of Illustrious , Highness , and Excellence 307 of sovereigns 311 of books 504 V. Vicars of Bray Vida 344 184 W. Wax - work 362 Writing , minute 482 ...
... Thoughts , some ingenious - 354 196 T. · 199 124 Trials in superstitious ages 280 Titles of Illustrious , Highness , and Excellence 307 of sovereigns 311 of books 504 V. Vicars of Bray Vida 344 184 W. Wax - work 362 Writing , minute 482 ...
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... thought somewhat prodigal ; his fluency of style some- what too familiar ; and others affected not to relish his gaiety . In his latter volumes , to still the clamour , he assumed the cold sobriety of an historian and has bequeathed no ...
... thought somewhat prodigal ; his fluency of style some- what too familiar ; and others affected not to relish his gaiety . In his latter volumes , to still the clamour , he assumed the cold sobriety of an historian and has bequeathed no ...
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... thought him too dry ; and , if we may trust Eschines , his language is by no means pure . The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius , and the Deipnosophists of Athenæus , while they have been extolled by one party , have been degraded by ...
... thought him too dry ; and , if we may trust Eschines , his language is by no means pure . The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius , and the Deipnosophists of Athenæus , while they have been extolled by one party , have been degraded by ...
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... thought the poet the commune would order this small house to be pur- chased with their own funds , that it might be dedicated to his immortal memory ! The illustrious Cardinal Bentivoglio , the orna- ment of Italy and of literature ...
... thought the poet the commune would order this small house to be pur- chased with their own funds , that it might be dedicated to his immortal memory ! The illustrious Cardinal Bentivoglio , the orna- ment of Italy and of literature ...
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... thought I had any just cause to be angry with the world - I did always in my judgment give the possession of wisdom the pre- ference to that of riches ! " Spenser , the child of Fancy , languished out his life in misery . " Lord ...
... thought I had any just cause to be angry with the world - I did always in my judgment give the possession of wisdom the pre- ference to that of riches ! " Spenser , the child of Fancy , languished out his life in misery . " Lord ...
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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.