Curiosities of Literature, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... afterwards adds others of the illegitimate races of wit : To join these squadrons , o'er the champain came , A numerous race of no ignoble name ; Riddle , and rebus , riddle's dearest son , And false conundrum and insidious pun ...
... afterwards adds others of the illegitimate races of wit : To join these squadrons , o'er the champain came , A numerous race of no ignoble name ; Riddle , and rebus , riddle's dearest son , And false conundrum and insidious pun ...
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... afterwards ; when the wits employed them- selves in decyphering it , unfortunately it became a source of literary altercation , being susceptible of various readings . The most correct appears thus : POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCUS COLUMNA ...
... afterwards ; when the wits employed them- selves in decyphering it , unfortunately it became a source of literary altercation , being susceptible of various readings . The most correct appears thus : POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCUS COLUMNA ...
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... afterwards pur- sued his ghost , and buffetted the father in his grave . This enraged the University of Naples ; and the Jesuits , to a man , denounced Grimaldi to Pope Benedict XIII . and Cardinal D'Althan , the Viceroy of Naples . On ...
... afterwards pur- sued his ghost , and buffetted the father in his grave . This enraged the University of Naples ; and the Jesuits , to a man , denounced Grimaldi to Pope Benedict XIII . and Cardinal D'Althan , the Viceroy of Naples . On ...
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... afterwards , in revising Moreri's dictionary gave a short sarcastic notice of the poet's brother ; in which he calls him the elder brother of him who has written the book , en- titled Satires of Mr. Boileau D'Espreaux ! " - the works of ...
... afterwards , in revising Moreri's dictionary gave a short sarcastic notice of the poet's brother ; in which he calls him the elder brother of him who has written the book , en- titled Satires of Mr. Boileau D'Espreaux ! " - the works of ...
الصفحة 41
... afterwards , by Henry III . A similar volun- tary blunder is that of Surita , in his Anales de la Corona de Aragon .. This writer represents , in the battles he describes , many persons who were not present and this , merely to confer ...
... afterwards , by Henry III . A similar volun- tary blunder is that of Surita , in his Anales de la Corona de Aragon .. This writer represents , in the battles he describes , many persons who were not present and this , merely to confer ...
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الصفحة 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
الصفحة 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
الصفحة 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
الصفحة 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
الصفحة 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
الصفحة 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
الصفحة 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
الصفحة 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
الصفحة 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
الصفحة 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...