Curiosities of Literature, Band 2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... whole four and twenty letters in their turns , and shewed them , one after another , that he could do his business without them . This Odyssey imitated the Lypo- grammatic Iliad of Nestor , a poet , who lived in the reign of the emperor ...
... whole four and twenty letters in their turns , and shewed them , one after another , that he could do his business without them . This Odyssey imitated the Lypo- grammatic Iliad of Nestor , a poet , who lived in the reign of the emperor ...
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... whole poem into the form of a heart . With a pair of wings many a sonnet fluttered , and a sacred hymn was expressed by the mystical triangle ; acrostics are formed from the initial letters of every verse , but a different conceit ...
... whole poem into the form of a heart . With a pair of wings many a sonnet fluttered , and a sacred hymn was expressed by the mystical triangle ; acrostics are formed from the initial letters of every verse , but a different conceit ...
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... whole page , inserting a panegyric on a fine hand - writing ! Pope's character of Gildon is not exaggerated : he held as heavy a pen of lead as any of the children of dulness . Littleton , the author of the Latin and English Dictionary ...
... whole page , inserting a panegyric on a fine hand - writing ! Pope's character of Gildon is not exaggerated : he held as heavy a pen of lead as any of the children of dulness . Littleton , the author of the Latin and English Dictionary ...
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... whole lives on this single point , had neither been so happy as to determine it to their satisfaction , nor to make in the labyrinths of science where they had been groping any dis- covery that was worth the pains they had taken . " It ...
... whole lives on this single point , had neither been so happy as to determine it to their satisfaction , nor to make in the labyrinths of science where they had been groping any dis- covery that was worth the pains they had taken . " It ...
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... whole bundles of ballads . " Marlow declared him to be " an ass fit only to preach of the iron age . " Stung to madness by this live- ly nest of hornets , he avenged himself in a very cowardly manner - he attacked Aristotle himself ...
... whole bundles of ballads . " Marlow declared him to be " an ass fit only to preach of the iron age . " Stung to madness by this live- ly nest of hornets , he avenged himself in a very cowardly manner - he attacked Aristotle himself ...
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...