A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with Literary AnecdotesLongman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1850 - 294 sider |
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... admire Hudibras , I cannot help believing that the reason so many of its imitators have failed is , that they endeavoured to meet at the moment a demand for wit which Butler had been a life preparing to supply . I have known men of ...
... admire Hudibras , I cannot help believing that the reason so many of its imitators have failed is , that they endeavoured to meet at the moment a demand for wit which Butler had been a life preparing to supply . I have known men of ...
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... admired , Johnson thought any man could write when he once hit the strain ; and Edmund Burke declared were intended to try English gullibility . Dr. Wolcot , better known as Peter Pindar , ridiculed Dryden's Alexander's Feast , and ...
... admired , Johnson thought any man could write when he once hit the strain ; and Edmund Burke declared were intended to try English gullibility . Dr. Wolcot , better known as Peter Pindar , ridiculed Dryden's Alexander's Feast , and ...
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... admire this constancy and fixedness of purpose , especially if we consider how many siren spells and luscious lulling fruits there are to tempt such faithful travellers from their course . " But would he not be afraid of betraying this ...
... admire this constancy and fixedness of purpose , especially if we consider how many siren spells and luscious lulling fruits there are to tempt such faithful travellers from their course . " But would he not be afraid of betraying this ...
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... admired . The very popular author , Mr. James , has written the History of Chivalry , as also the lives of Richard I ... admiration by all learned men . Even Niebuhr praised the depth of his research , and the clearness of his views ...
... admired . The very popular author , Mr. James , has written the History of Chivalry , as also the lives of Richard I ... admiration by all learned men . Even Niebuhr praised the depth of his research , and the clearness of his views ...
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... admire . truth is , God rolls along the still untiring stream of time ; and whether its surface is ruffled , as it were , by a ripple or a whirlpool — whether it bears on its wide bosom the curling leaf or rifted oak- whether the ...
... admire . truth is , God rolls along the still untiring stream of time ; and whether its surface is ruffled , as it were , by a ripple or a whirlpool — whether it bears on its wide bosom the curling leaf or rifted oak- whether the ...
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Side 287 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Side 26 - TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. Comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, &c.
Side 26 - One half the world does not know how the other half lives...
Side 27 - Moore.— The Power of the Soul over the Body, considered in relation to Health and Morals. By GEORGE MOORE, MD, Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
Side 113 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Side 9 - He told us, he read Fielding's Amelia through without stopping *. He said,' if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
Side 10 - Sharp's New British Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands and Narrow Seas : Comprising concise Descriptions of about Sixty Thousand Places, Seats, Natural Features, and Objects of Note, founded on the best Authorities ; full Particulars of the Boundaries, Registered Electors, etc. of the Parliamentary Boroughs ; with a reference under every name to the Sheet of the Ordnance Survey...
Side 289 - DALE.— THE DOMESTIC LITURGY AND FAMILY CHAPLAIN, in Two Parts: The First Part being Church Services adapted for domestic use, with Prayers for every day of the week, selected exclusively from the Book of Common Prayer ; Part II. comprising an appropriate Sermon for every Sunday in the year. By the Rev. THOMAS DALE, MA, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Side 10 - Sewell.— Laneton Parsonage : A Tale for Children, on the Practical Use of a portion of the Church Catechism. By the Author of Amy Herbert.
Side 291 - Boy's Country Book ; Being the Real Life of a Country Boy, written by himself ; exhibiting all the Amusements, Pleasures, and Pursuits of Children in the Country. New Edition ; with 40 Woodcuts. Fcp. 8vo. price 6s. Howitt.— The Rural Life of England. By WILLIAM HOWITT. New Edition, corrected and revised ; with Woodcuts by Bewick and Williams : Uniform with Visits to Remarkable Places.