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... says that Keats learned from Brown all that he knew of Ariosto , and that Brown scarcely let a day pass in Italy without translating from the Italian . His ' complete and admirable Version of the first five Cantos of Boiardo's " Orlando ...
... says that Keats learned from Brown all that he knew of Ariosto , and that Brown scarcely let a day pass in Italy without translating from the Italian . His ' complete and admirable Version of the first five Cantos of Boiardo's " Orlando ...
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... says Sir Frederick Madden , ' it resembles the Burghley picture , but its authenticity has been questioned . ' The fact is that the face does not bear the least resem- blance to the features of Queen Mary , and the " costume is some ...
... says Sir Frederick Madden , ' it resembles the Burghley picture , but its authenticity has been questioned . ' The fact is that the face does not bear the least resem- blance to the features of Queen Mary , and the " costume is some ...
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... says : ' It is by far our most thorough exposition and discussion of the doctrine it handles ; and it is all the more it has on the new views which Baxter and to be prized because of the particular bearing others had begun to propagate ...
... says : ' It is by far our most thorough exposition and discussion of the doctrine it handles ; and it is all the more it has on the new views which Baxter and to be prized because of the particular bearing others had begun to propagate ...
Side 11
... says Cowper ( Table - Talk ) , ' rose like a paper kite and charmed the town . ' It is a well - written version of the ordinary com- plaints of luxury and effeminacy which gained popularity from the contemporary fit of na- tional ...
... says Cowper ( Table - Talk ) , ' rose like a paper kite and charmed the town . ' It is a well - written version of the ordinary com- plaints of luxury and effeminacy which gained popularity from the contemporary fit of na- tional ...
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... says that he had been subject to fits of frenzy for above thirty years , and would have killed himself long before but for the care of friends . Walpole's remark , given above , seems to imply that his partial de- rangement was ...
... says that he had been subject to fits of frenzy for above thirty years , and would have killed himself long before but for the care of friends . Walpole's remark , given above , seems to imply that his partial de- rangement was ...
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Side 343 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 337 - I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.' — ' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.
Side 238 - Who knows the inscrutable design? Blessed be He who took and gave! Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven that willed it so, That darkly rules the fate of all, That sends the respite or the blow, That's free to give or to recall.
Side 253 - Pathomyotomia Or a Dissection Of the significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. Being an Essay to a New Method of observing the most Important movings of the Muscles of the Head, as they are the neerest and Immediate Organs of the Voluntarie or Impetuous motions of the Mind. With the Proposall of a new Nomenclature of the Muscles. By JB Sirnamed the Chirosopher.
Side 60 - In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the Church is my text ; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.
Side 23 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee. Dr. Fell.
Side 356 - THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM; OR, NARRATIVES, SCENES, AND ANECDOTES FROM COURTS OF JUSTICE. SECOND SERIES. BY PETER BURKE, Esa., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s.
Side 70 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Side 56 - He was once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Side 272 - As for his person, he was tall of stature, strong-boned, though not corpulent, somewhat of a ruddy face, with sparkling eyes, wearing his hair on his upper lip, after the old British fashion ; his hair reddish, but, in his latter days, time had sprinkled it with grey; his nose well set, but not declining or bending, and his mouth moderately large ;' his forehead something high; and his habit always plain and modest.