Curiosities of Literature, Volum 2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... lady of that elegant scholar John Evelyn , designed herself the frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius . She felt the same passion in her own breast as animated her husband's , who has written with various ingenuity . Of Baron ...
... lady of that elegant scholar John Evelyn , designed herself the frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius . She felt the same passion in her own breast as animated her husband's , who has written with various ingenuity . Of Baron ...
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... lady with whose name he must be acquainted . She writes : " Certainly , my lord , you have had as many enemies and as many friends as ever any one particular person had ; nor do I so much wonder at it , since I , a woman , cannot be ...
... lady with whose name he must be acquainted . She writes : " Certainly , my lord , you have had as many enemies and as many friends as ever any one particular person had ; nor do I so much wonder at it , since I , a woman , cannot be ...
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Isaac Disraeli. 1 present to such a most dreary solitude . Such a lady declared of her learned husband , that she was more jealous of his books , than his mistresses . While Glover was composing his " Leonidas , " his lady avenged ...
Isaac Disraeli. 1 present to such a most dreary solitude . Such a lady declared of her learned husband , that she was more jealous of his books , than his mistresses . While Glover was composing his " Leonidas , " his lady avenged ...
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... lady of one Samuel Clarke , who was a great compiler of books in 1680 , and his name anagrammatised to " suck all cream , " allud- ing to his indefatigable labours in sucking all the cream of every other author , though he gave no cream ...
... lady of one Samuel Clarke , who was a great compiler of books in 1680 , and his name anagrammatised to " suck all cream , " allud- ing to his indefatigable labours in sucking all the cream of every other author , though he gave no cream ...
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... ladies married to literary men are so vain of the abilities and merit of their husbands that they are frequently unsufferable . He illustrates his observation by several anecdotes . The wife of Barclay , author of " The Argenis ...
... ladies married to literary men are so vain of the abilities and merit of their husbands that they are frequently unsufferable . He illustrates his observation by several anecdotes . The wife of Barclay , author of " The Argenis ...
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Side 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
Side 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Side 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Side 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Side 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Side 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Side 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Side 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Side 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Side 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...