Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... king of Macedon , brought to Rome a great number which he had amassed in Greece , and which he now distributed among his sons , or presented to the Roman people . Sylla followed his example . After the siege of Athens , he discovered an ...
... king of Macedon , brought to Rome a great number which he had amassed in Greece , and which he now distributed among his sons , or presented to the Roman people . Sylla followed his example . After the siege of Athens , he discovered an ...
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... king's advocate in Scot- land , has been rescued from a mass of waste paper sold to a grocer , who had the good sense to discriminate it , and communicated this curious memorial to Dr. M'Crie ; the original , in the hand - writing of ...
... king's advocate in Scot- land , has been rescued from a mass of waste paper sold to a grocer , who had the good sense to discriminate it , and communicated this curious memorial to Dr. M'Crie ; the original , in the hand - writing of ...
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... . One day , the king asked what there was new in the literary world ? Racine answered , that he had seen a melancholy spectacle in the house of Cor- neille , whom he found dying , deprived even of POVERTY OF THE LEARNED . 53.
... . One day , the king asked what there was new in the literary world ? Racine answered , that he had seen a melancholy spectacle in the house of Cor- neille , whom he found dying , deprived even of POVERTY OF THE LEARNED . 53.
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... king preserved a profound silence ; and sent the dying poet a sum of money . Dryden , for less than three hundred pounds , sold Tonson ten thousand verses , as may be seen by the agreement which has been published . Purchas , who , in ...
... king preserved a profound silence ; and sent the dying poet a sum of money . Dryden , for less than three hundred pounds , sold Tonson ten thousand verses , as may be seen by the agreement which has been published . Purchas , who , in ...
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... king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for his only reward the thanks of his majesty . Rymer , the collector of the Fœdera , must have been sadly reduced , by the following let- ter ...
... king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for his only reward the thanks of his majesty . Rymer , the collector of the Fœdera , must have been sadly reduced , by the following let- ter ...
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Página 258 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Página 147 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars 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 57 - 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 160 - ... his surprise was increased by the appearance of a large cross, triumphantly erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the...
Página 159 - 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 507 - 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 221 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand : he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Página 331 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Página 112 - I'm resolv'd to search for thee ; The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is), Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.
Página 500 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, 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.