Curiosities of Literature, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1807 |
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... passed entire days in gathering fruits and flowers , delighting and in- structing himself by perpetual occupation . Mr. Necker reckons the French King's Library at 225,000 printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and ...
... passed entire days in gathering fruits and flowers , delighting and in- structing himself by perpetual occupation . Mr. Necker reckons the French King's Library at 225,000 printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and ...
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... passed the last years of his life in jail , where indeed he died . After the Restoration , when he presented to the king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for 48 THE POVERTY OF THE ...
... passed the last years of his life in jail , where indeed he died . After the Restoration , when he presented to the king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for 48 THE POVERTY OF THE ...
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... passed a great part of his nights in literary compo- sitions . Assisted only by his memory he composed several learned treatises . One , De Tintinnabulis on Bells , is still read with great satisfaction by the curious , and was actually ...
... passed a great part of his nights in literary compo- sitions . Assisted only by his memory he composed several learned treatises . One , De Tintinnabulis on Bells , is still read with great satisfaction by the curious , and was actually ...
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... passed his mornings in the work - rooms of artists , and his evenings in writing his numerous works on art . The great Arnauld read , in his hours of relaxa- tion , any amusing romance that fell into his hands ; as did the critical ...
... passed his mornings in the work - rooms of artists , and his evenings in writing his numerous works on art . The great Arnauld read , in his hours of relaxa- tion , any amusing romance that fell into his hands ; as did the critical ...
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Isaac Disraeli. Sweden , Martial and other Latin authors . Not a day passed but she read a portion of Tacitus . This author , difficult to the learned , was familiar to her . She confessed , however , that his works were rather one of ...
Isaac Disraeli. Sweden , Martial and other Latin authors . Not a day passed but she read a portion of Tacitus . This author , difficult to the learned , was familiar to her . She confessed , however , that his works were rather one of ...
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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.