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As the number of students and readers diminished , authors neglected literature ,
and were disgusted with composition ; for to write is seldom done , but when the
writer entertains the hope of finding readers . Instead of original authors , there ...
As the number of students and readers diminished , authors neglected literature ,
and were disgusted with composition ; for to write is seldom done , but when the
writer entertains the hope of finding readers . Instead of original authors , there ...
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Among the most singular characters in literature may be ranked those who do not
blush to profess publicly its most dishonourable practices . The vender of printed
sermons imitating ms . is too notorious to mention . He to whom the following ...
Among the most singular characters in literature may be ranked those who do not
blush to profess publicly its most dishonourable practices . The vender of printed
sermons imitating ms . is too notorious to mention . He to whom the following ...
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WHEN Crebillon , the French tragic poet , published his Catilina , it was attended
with an honour to literature , which though it is probably forgotten ( for it was only
registered , I think , as the news of the day ) it becomes a collector zealous in the
...
WHEN Crebillon , the French tragic poet , published his Catilina , it was attended
with an honour to literature , which though it is probably forgotten ( for it was only
registered , I think , as the news of the day ) it becomes a collector zealous in the
...
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Travels and voyages have long been a class of literature so fashionable , that we
begin to complain . Different times , then , are regulated by different tastes . What
makes a strong impression on the public at one time , ceases to interest it at ...
Travels and voyages have long been a class of literature so fashionable , that we
begin to complain . Different times , then , are regulated by different tastes . What
makes a strong impression on the public at one time , ceases to interest it at ...
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These critics have felt all the charms of literary history ; and their curious
researches interest us much more by the pleasure we feel in their perusal , than
by that recondite erudition in English literature , which they fo admirably display *
.
These critics have felt all the charms of literary history ; and their curious
researches interest us much more by the pleasure we feel in their perusal , than
by that recondite erudition in English literature , which they fo admirably display *
.
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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 Chimène 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...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Curiosities of Literature, Volumen2 Curiosities of Literature, Isaac Disraeli |
| Autor | Isaac Disraeli |
| Edición | 5 |
| Editor | J. Murray, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 11 Ene. 2008 |
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