Curiosities of Literature, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1807 |
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Isaac Disraeli. that a collection of a different complexion , though much less amusing , might prove , somewhat more instructive ; and that , literary history , afforded an almost unexplored source , of interesting facts . The work ...
Isaac Disraeli. that a collection of a different complexion , though much less amusing , might prove , somewhat more instructive ; and that , literary history , afforded an almost unexplored source , of interesting facts . The work ...
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... less for the ceremony , than from the sincerity of his devotion . We must however be reminded , that there is an intemperance in Study , incompatible often with our social duties . The illustrious Grotius exposed him- self to the ...
... less for the ceremony , than from the sincerity of his devotion . We must however be reminded , that there is an intemperance in Study , incompatible often with our social duties . The illustrious Grotius exposed him- self to the ...
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... less profit . The literary Her- cules may bé fatigued ; to supply his pages he gives copious extracts , and his journal becomes tedious , or fails in variety . Abbé Gallois was ' frequently diverted from continuing his journal , and ...
... less profit . The literary Her- cules may bé fatigued ; to supply his pages he gives copious extracts , and his journal becomes tedious , or fails in variety . Abbé Gallois was ' frequently diverted from continuing his journal , and ...
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... less to be dreaded . We have often seen the mind of a Reviewer half a century remote from the work re- viewed . A fine feeling of the various manners of writers is necessary ; a luminous conception , that he may be gracefully ...
... less to be dreaded . We have often seen the mind of a Reviewer half a century remote from the work re- viewed . A fine feeling of the various manners of writers is necessary ; a luminous conception , that he may be gracefully ...
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... less fortu- nate , and the glory of possessing a Manuscript of Cicero , seemed to approximate to that of being its author ! It is curious to observe that in these vast importations into Italy of Manuscripts from Asia , John Aurispa ...
... less fortu- nate , and the glory of possessing a Manuscript of Cicero , seemed to approximate to that of being its author ! It is curious to observe that in these vast importations into Italy of Manuscripts from Asia , John Aurispa ...
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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.