Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksJ.K. Porter, 1832 - 290 من الصفحات |
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... darkness see much by a little light ; and , therefore , it is unsafe to form an estimate of the knowledge which nations possessed in ancient times , by examining , at the present day , the amount of literature they had acquired . The ...
... darkness see much by a little light ; and , therefore , it is unsafe to form an estimate of the knowledge which nations possessed in ancient times , by examining , at the present day , the amount of literature they had acquired . The ...
الصفحة 48
... dark watches of the night . He read nature , from season to season , and man in every hour of his existence ; but there was about his doing this , the mild complacency of a supe- rior being , not the swollen muscle , and bursting veins ...
... dark watches of the night . He read nature , from season to season , and man in every hour of his existence ; but there was about his doing this , the mild complacency of a supe- rior being , not the swollen muscle , and bursting veins ...
الصفحة 60
... darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish night , Why wouldst thou , but for some felonious end , In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars , That nature hung in Heav'n , and fill'd their lamps 60.
... darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish night , Why wouldst thou , but for some felonious end , In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars , That nature hung in Heav'n , and fill'd their lamps 60.
الصفحة 61
... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beck'ning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beck'ning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
الصفحة 62
... darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe , with the Sirens three , Amidst the flow'ry - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs , and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prison'd soul , And lap it in ...
... darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe , with the Sirens three , Amidst the flow'ry - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs , and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prison'd soul , And lap it in ...
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