Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1807 |
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... shews that they were composed in their respective retirements . Cicero must have enjoyed the magic art of so em- ploying ... shew that even a passion for Collecting Books is not always a pas- sion for Letters . The BIBLIOMANIA , or the ...
... shews that they were composed in their respective retirements . Cicero must have enjoyed the magic art of so em- ploying ... shew that even a passion for Collecting Books is not always a pas- sion for Letters . The BIBLIOMANIA , or the ...
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... shews me fine Editions , gold leaves , Etrus- can bindings , & c . naming them one after another , as if he were shewing a gallery of pictures ! a gal- lery by the bye which he seldom traverses when alone , for he rarely reads , but me ...
... shews me fine Editions , gold leaves , Etrus- can bindings , & c . naming them one after another , as if he were shewing a gallery of pictures ! a gal- lery by the bye which he seldom traverses when alone , for he rarely reads , but me ...
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... shews great skill in analysis : but his hand is heavy and drops no flowers ! His volumes are still consulted by the learned , and GIBBON tells us he resorted to them at his leisure , " as an inexhaustible source of amusement and ...
... shews great skill in analysis : but his hand is heavy and drops no flowers ! His volumes are still consulted by the learned , and GIBBON tells us he resorted to them at his leisure , " as an inexhaustible source of amusement and ...
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... shew the pedantry of those who adore antiquity not from feeling , but from prejudice . One reason ( writes the learned compiler of L'Esprit des Croisades , a work frequently quoted by Gibbon , ) why we have lost a great number of ...
... shew the pedantry of those who adore antiquity not from feeling , but from prejudice . One reason ( writes the learned compiler of L'Esprit des Croisades , a work frequently quoted by Gibbon , ) why we have lost a great number of ...
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... shew the young writer , that the most celebrated ancients , have been as rudely subjected to the tyranny of Criticism as the moderns . Envy has ever poured the " waters of bitterness . " It was given out , that Homer had stolen from ...
... shew the young writer , that the most celebrated ancients , have been as rudely subjected to the tyranny of Criticism as the moderns . Envy has ever poured the " waters of bitterness . " It was given out , that Homer had stolen from ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Página 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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 !
Página 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.