Curiosities of Literature, Volumen2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... labours may be well called , in the language of Dryden , " Pangs without birth , and fruitless industry . " And Martial says , Turpe est difficiles habere nugas Et stultus labor est ineptiarum . ' Tis a folly to sweat o'er a difficult ...
... labours may be well called , in the language of Dryden , " Pangs without birth , and fruitless industry . " And Martial says , Turpe est difficiles habere nugas Et stultus labor est ineptiarum . ' Tis a folly to sweat o'er a difficult ...
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... labour ! His wife left him nothing to desire . The frequent companion of his studies , she brought him the books he requir- ed to his desk ; she compared passages , and tran- scribed quotations ; the same genius , the same in ...
... labour ! His wife left him nothing to desire . The frequent companion of his studies , she brought him the books he requir- ed to his desk ; she compared passages , and tran- scribed quotations ; the same genius , the same in ...
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... laboured more corporally than intellectually ; but he hoped to make more books than children . " The soul ( says he ) will be productive in its turn ; it will rise on the ruins of the body ; a prolific virtue is not given at the same ...
... laboured more corporally than intellectually ; but he hoped to make more books than children . " The soul ( says he ) will be productive in its turn ; it will rise on the ruins of the body ; a prolific virtue is not given at the same ...
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... labours have been ridiculed by some wits ; but had her studies been regulated by a classical education , she would have displayed no ordinary genius . The Connoisseur has quoted her poems ; and the verses have been imitated by Milton ...
... labours have been ridiculed by some wits ; but had her studies been regulated by a classical education , she would have displayed no ordinary genius . The Connoisseur has quoted her poems ; and the verses have been imitated by Milton ...
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... labours in sucking all the cream of every other author , though he gave no cream from himself , is described by her husband as having the most sublime conceptions of his illustri- ous compilations . This appears by her behaviour . He ...
... labours in sucking all the cream of every other author , though he gave no cream from himself , is described by her husband as having the most sublime conceptions of his illustri- ous compilations . This appears by her behaviour . He ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
Página 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimčne a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Página 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Página 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Página 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Página 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Página 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...