Curiosities of Literature, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1807 |
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... France , confined in the Louvre , pursued very warmly the studies of elegant literature , and com- posed a very skilful Apology for the irregularities of her conduct . Charles the First , during his cruel confinement at Holmsby , wrote ...
... France , confined in the Louvre , pursued very warmly the studies of elegant literature , and com- posed a very skilful Apology for the irregularities of her conduct . Charles the First , during his cruel confinement at Holmsby , wrote ...
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... France , consisted in the severest studies in a word , all his relaxations were only changes of labour . In the age of the passions , says Thomas , his only passion was study . 6 The same writer observes , The great Leibnitz , historian ...
... France , consisted in the severest studies in a word , all his relaxations were only changes of labour . In the age of the passions , says Thomas , his only passion was study . 6 The same writer observes , The great Leibnitz , historian ...
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Isaac Disraeli. pleix , who always spoke highly of Queen Mar- garet of France for a little place he held in her household : but after her death , when his place was extinct , spoke of her with all the freedom of satire . Such is too ...
Isaac Disraeli. pleix , who always spoke highly of Queen Mar- garet of France for a little place he held in her household : but after her death , when his place was extinct , spoke of her with all the freedom of satire . Such is too ...
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... France . Some hours afterwards the friends of the poet re- lated to him the conversation of the cardinal . heard , and quitted them abruptly . He ran to the apartment of his Eminence , and knocked with all his force , that he might be ...
... France . Some hours afterwards the friends of the poet re- lated to him the conversation of the cardinal . heard , and quitted them abruptly . He ran to the apartment of his Eminence , and knocked with all his force , that he might be ...
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... God , " replied the grandfather , " he was as good an actor as Montrose . " The words struck young Moliere ; he took a disgust to his tapestry trade ; and it is to this circumstance France 136 POETS , PHILOSOPHERS , AND ARTISTS ,
... God , " replied the grandfather , " he was as good an actor as Montrose . " The words struck young Moliere ; he took a disgust to his tapestry trade ; and it is to this circumstance France 136 POETS , PHILOSOPHERS , AND ARTISTS ,
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الصفحة 503 - 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.
الصفحة 51 - 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...
الصفحة 502 - I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
الصفحة 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
الصفحة 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
الصفحة 496 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. E 2 My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleet-street, 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.
الصفحة 134 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars 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.
الصفحة 146 - 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.
الصفحة 464 - Were I to tell you that I do not mean to marry, I might say less than I intend ; and were I to tell you that I do mean to marry, I might say more than it is proper for you to know; therefore I give you an answer, ANSWERLESS !
الصفحة 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.