Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1824 - 472 páginas |
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... readers * . I conceived that a col- lection of a different complexion , though much less amusing , might prove somewhat more instructive ; and that literary history afforded an almost unexplored source of interesting facts . The work ...
... readers * . I conceived that a col- lection of a different complexion , though much less amusing , might prove somewhat more instructive ; and that literary history afforded an almost unexplored source of interesting facts . The work ...
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... readers , is not to be contemned , even by the learned . More might be alleged in favour of works like the present than can be urged against them . They are of a class which was well known to the Ancients . The Greeks were not without ...
... readers , is not to be contemned , even by the learned . More might be alleged in favour of works like the present than can be urged against them . They are of a class which was well known to the Ancients . The Greeks were not without ...
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... reader , dazzling our eyes like eastern beau- ties peering through their jealousies ! BRUYERE has touched on this mania with hu- mour : " Of such a collector , " says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair ...
... reader , dazzling our eyes like eastern beau- ties peering through their jealousies ! BRUYERE has touched on this mania with hu- mour : " Of such a collector , " says he " as soon as I enter his house , I am ready to faint on the stair ...
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... readers rare , the unsuccessful author fell insensibly into oblivion ; he dissolved away in his own weakness : if he committed the private folly of printing what no one would purchase , he was not arraigned at the public tribunal - and ...
... readers rare , the unsuccessful author fell insensibly into oblivion ; he dissolved away in his own weakness : if he committed the private folly of printing what no one would purchase , he was not arraigned at the public tribunal - and ...
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... reader wished only to have accounts of books which were interesting to his profession or his taste . But a review is a work presented to the public at large , and written for more than one country . In spite of all these difficulties ...
... reader wished only to have accounts of books which were interesting to his profession or his taste . But a review is a work presented to the public at large , and written for more than one country . In spite of all these difficulties ...
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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.