Curiosities of Literature, Band 2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... relates his amours with a lady of the name of Polia . It was considered im- proper to prefix his name to the work ; but being desirous of marking it by some peculiarity , that he might claim it at any distant day , he contrived that the ...
... relates his amours with a lady of the name of Polia . It was considered im- proper to prefix his name to the work ; but being desirous of marking it by some peculiarity , that he might claim it at any distant day , he contrived that the ...
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... relates to our noble authoress . The reader will be amused while he forms a more correct idea of a literary lady with whose name he must be acquainted . She writes : " Certainly , my lord , you have had as many enemies and as many ...
... relates to our noble authoress . The reader will be amused while he forms a more correct idea of a literary lady with whose name he must be acquainted . She writes : " Certainly , my lord , you have had as many enemies and as many ...
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... relates a curious anecdote respecting the forgeries of the monks . Archbishop Usher detected in a manu- script of St. Patrick's life pretended to have been found at Louvain , as an original of a very remote date , several passages taken ...
... relates a curious anecdote respecting the forgeries of the monks . Archbishop Usher detected in a manu- script of St. Patrick's life pretended to have been found at Louvain , as an original of a very remote date , several passages taken ...
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... relates the visions of the Virgin , which appeared to induce her to write her own life . She begins this history early enough ; ab ovo , as it may be justly expres- sed ; for she has formed a narrative of what passed during the nine ...
... relates the visions of the Virgin , which appeared to induce her to write her own life . She begins this history early enough ; ab ovo , as it may be justly expres- sed ; for she has formed a narrative of what passed during the nine ...
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... relate all the unhappy consequences which ignorance introduced , and the causes which produced that ignorance . But we must not for- get to place in this number the mode of reducing , by way of abridgment , what the ancients had written ...
... relate all the unhappy consequences which ignorance introduced , and the causes which produced that ignorance . But we must not for- get to place in this number the mode of reducing , by way of abridgment , what the ancients had written ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abbé admirable afterwards amuse ancient anec anecdotes appear Ariosto Aristotle Astrea bard Bayle beautiful becauſe Boileau Brantome called Cardinal Richelieu celebrated character Cicero composed composition Corneille court Crebillon critic curious death delight Duke employed English eyes father fatire favour favourite fire Folly fome French frequently fuch genius give hand Henry VIII himſelf Homer honour humour imagination imitation ingenious Italian Jesuit king labours lady learned letters literary literature lively majesty manner marriage memoirs merit Metastasio Milton mind moſt muſt never notice observes occasion pamphlets passion Perceforest perhaps Perizonius persons Petrarch poem poet poetical poetry Pope prince Queen Racine racters reader ridiculous romance satire says Scarron Scioppius shew ſhould singular solitude Tacitus Tasso taste theſe thing thoſe thou tion verses Virgil Virgin Voltaire volumes word writers written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...