Curiosities of Literature, Band 4J. Murray, 1823 |
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... delight in seeing his horses of mannage rid by his escuyers , whom he instructs in that art for his own pleasure . But in the art of weapons ( in which he has a method beyond all that ever was famous in it , found out by his own ...
... delight in seeing his horses of mannage rid by his escuyers , whom he instructs in that art for his own pleasure . But in the art of weapons ( in which he has a method beyond all that ever was famous in it , found out by his own ...
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... delighted him in theory ; but three years after- wards he fixed himself in London . Evelyn , who wrote in favour of ... delightful ! Alas ! every thing in life seems to have in it the nature of a bubble of air , and , when touched , we ...
... delighted him in theory ; but three years after- wards he fixed himself in London . Evelyn , who wrote in favour of ... delightful ! Alas ! every thing in life seems to have in it the nature of a bubble of air , and , when touched , we ...
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... delight of Europe , both lived to an advanced age , and died nearly at the same time . Their fortune bore , too , a resemblance ; for they were both pensioned , but lived and died separated in the distant courts of LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS ...
... delight of Europe , both lived to an advanced age , and died nearly at the same time . Their fortune bore , too , a resemblance ; for they were both pensioned , but lived and died separated in the distant courts of LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS ...
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... delighted by his favourite " Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians , " that he distinguished it by a title of doting fondness ; he named it after his wife , and called it " His Catharine . " ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND . SOME ...
... delighted by his favourite " Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians , " that he distinguished it by a title of doting fondness ; he named it after his wife , and called it " His Catharine . " ANECDOTES OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND . SOME ...
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... delight in the ceaseless progression of his studies , that he would never willingly quit his maps to take the ... delightful that I have spent twelve and fourteen successively at my writing - desk , and still F 2 OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND . 67.
... delight in the ceaseless progression of his studies , that he would never willingly quit his maps to take the ... delightful that I have spent twelve and fourteen successively at my writing - desk , and still F 2 OF ABSTRACTION OF MIND . 67.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 144 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 160 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Seite 137 - The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind...
Seite 135 - 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.
Seite 283 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.
Seite 154 - ... human, 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...
Seite 218 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Seite 146 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
Seite 149 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite 153 - Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.