"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... person to himself ! Butler might aim a sly stroke at Sir Samuel by hinting to him how well he resembled Hudibras , but with a remarkable forbearance he has left posterity to settle the affair , which is certainly not worth their while ...
... person to himself ! Butler might aim a sly stroke at Sir Samuel by hinting to him how well he resembled Hudibras , but with a remarkable forbearance he has left posterity to settle the affair , which is certainly not worth their while ...
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... persons of political and religious his tory . Butler had lived amidst scenes which might have excited indignation and ... person seriously calls this , or rather burlesque , a childish or low species of poetry , he says wrong . For the ...
... persons of political and religious his tory . Butler had lived amidst scenes which might have excited indignation and ... person seriously calls this , or rather burlesque , a childish or low species of poetry , he says wrong . For the ...
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... person , which , in the history of a female , is not the least important . In hastily consulting two passages ... persons and their houses . ' Morant takes the term ungraceful in its modern acceptation ; but in the style of that day , I ...
... person , which , in the history of a female , is not the least important . In hastily consulting two passages ... persons and their houses . ' Morant takes the term ungraceful in its modern acceptation ; but in the style of that day , I ...
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... person , and the peace of the kingdom . The fifth , that you having certified the king you had received an engagement from my Lord of Oxford , and the ' Secondly , the end justifies , at the least , excuses , the fact ; for it was only ...
... person , and the peace of the kingdom . The fifth , that you having certified the king you had received an engagement from my Lord of Oxford , and the ' Secondly , the end justifies , at the least , excuses , the fact ; for it was only ...
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... person ; but I must tell you frankly , that he is a man without erudition , and without any critical discrimi- nation ; he writes pretty well , and turns passably what he says ; but that is all ! Monsieur Van Effen having failed in his ...
... person ; but I must tell you frankly , that he is a man without erudition , and without any critical discrimi- nation ; he writes pretty well , and turns passably what he says ; but that is all ! Monsieur Van Effen having failed in his ...
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Стр. 243 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Стр. 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish ; By a power to thee unknown, Thou canst never be alone ; Thou art wrapt as with a shroud, Thou art gathered in a cloud ; And for ever shalt thou dwell In the spirit of this spell.
Стр. 301 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Стр. 82 - ... due observation, I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking — of tavern or ale-house drinking.
Стр. 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Стр. 321 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Стр. 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Стр. 23 - Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But, after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence.
Стр. 18 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Стр. 407 - my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.