Curiosities of Literature, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1807 |
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... head in a cloud ; because the true idea of beauty , is hard to be conceived ! Flattery , by a lady with a flute in her hand , and a stag at her feet , because stags are said to love music so much , that they suffer themselves to be ...
... head in a cloud ; because the true idea of beauty , is hard to be conceived ! Flattery , by a lady with a flute in her hand , and a stag at her feet , because stags are said to love music so much , that they suffer themselves to be ...
الصفحة 25
... heads " for the le- gend of a saint , and immortal truths were con- verted into clumsy fictions . It happened that the most voluminous authors were the greatest suf- ferers ; these were preferred , because their volume being the ...
... heads " for the le- gend of a saint , and immortal truths were con- verted into clumsy fictions . It happened that the most voluminous authors were the greatest suf- ferers ; these were preferred , because their volume being the ...
الصفحة 33
... heads in Europe , instructions for ambassadors , and many other po- litical documents relating to the events of those times . Twenty years ago Montaigne's Journal of his travels into Italy were published . A prebendary of Perigord , in ...
... heads in Europe , instructions for ambassadors , and many other po- litical documents relating to the events of those times . Twenty years ago Montaigne's Journal of his travels into Italy were published . A prebendary of Perigord , in ...
الصفحة 42
... head : a Monk , who had heard that Beel- zebub signifies in Hebrew , the God of Flies , re- ported that he saw this spirit come to take posses- sion of him . Mr. De Langear , a French minister , who employed many spies , was frequently ...
... head : a Monk , who had heard that Beel- zebub signifies in Hebrew , the God of Flies , re- ported that he saw this spirit come to take posses- sion of him . Mr. De Langear , a French minister , who employed many spies , was frequently ...
الصفحة 69
... heads ; which must ever be regretted by their admirers , and by physi- ognomists . To an arranged collection , of PORTRAITS , we owe several interesting works , valuable either for . their biographical research , or their eloquent phi ...
... heads ; which must ever be regretted by their admirers , and by physi- ognomists . To an arranged collection , of PORTRAITS , we owe several interesting works , valuable either for . their biographical research , or their eloquent phi ...
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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.