"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... tion , we should not have ascribed it to Bayle . For this vacillation in his religion has Bayle endured bitter censure . Gibbon , who himself changed his , about the same year of his age , ' and for as short a period , sar- castically ...
... tion , we should not have ascribed it to Bayle . For this vacillation in his religion has Bayle endured bitter censure . Gibbon , who himself changed his , about the same year of his age , ' and for as short a period , sar- castically ...
第 231 頁
... tion of large prices , and with the expectation , that if the orator and consul would submit to accept any bribe , it would hardly be refused in the shape of a manuscript or a statue . In the name of our friendship , ' says Cicero , ad ...
... tion of large prices , and with the expectation , that if the orator and consul would submit to accept any bribe , it would hardly be refused in the shape of a manuscript or a statue . In the name of our friendship , ' says Cicero , ad ...
第 232 頁
... tion . The true principles of art were collected together in his own mind , -the rich fruits of his own studies , -and these first prompted him to invent a new school of paint - cloth , to remind him , as he once whispered in Agostino's ...
... tion . The true principles of art were collected together in his own mind , -the rich fruits of his own studies , -and these first prompted him to invent a new school of paint - cloth , to remind him , as he once whispered in Agostino's ...
第 233 頁
... tion for that chapter on Literary Jealousy ' which I have written in The Literary Character . ' We have seen even the gentle Lodovico infected by it ; but it raged in the breast of Annibale . Careless of fortune as they were through ...
... tion for that chapter on Literary Jealousy ' which I have written in The Literary Character . ' We have seen even the gentle Lodovico infected by it ; but it raged in the breast of Annibale . Careless of fortune as they were through ...
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... tion . Yet , like the Royal Society , its origin has been at tributed to political motives , with a view to divert the atten- tion from popular discontents ; but when we look into the real origin of the French Academy , and our Royal ...
... tion . Yet , like the Royal Society , its origin has been at tributed to political motives , with a view to divert the atten- tion from popular discontents ; but when we look into the real origin of the French Academy , and our Royal ...
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afterwards amidst amusing ancient apoplexy appears awake Bayle become Ben Jonson Bishop body brain called cause Charles Cicero circumstance Coke curious death declared delight discovered dreams drunkards drunkenness duke Duke of Anjou effect English excited existence eyes fact fancy favour favourite feelings France French genius George Steevens give habit hand historian honour Hudibras human imagination invention Italian Italy Jesuits king labour lady learned letter liquor literary character literature lived Lord Lord Bacon Magius manuscript masques ment mind nation nature never Niceron night observed occasion Oldys opium original parliament party passion person Petrarch philosopher Plutarch poet political preserved principle produced proverbs queen racter Rawleigh remarkable says scene secret history seems Shenstone sleep society sometimes somnambulism spirit taste thing thought tion truth volume words writing
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第 243 頁 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
第 19 頁 - 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.
第 301 頁 - 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.
第 82 頁 - ... 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.
第 52 頁 - 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.
第 321 頁 - 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.
第 47 頁 - 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.
第 23 頁 - 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.
第 18 頁 - 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...
第 407 頁 - 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.