Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 1J. & H. G. Langley, 1841 - Authors, English |
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... Italians have been more fortunate in describing this class , as la letteratura amena ; and if it were required to place a classical seal on the term , we might appeal to Pliny , who has given it to literary pursuits in general , amœni ...
... Italians have been more fortunate in describing this class , as la letteratura amena ; and if it were required to place a classical seal on the term , we might appeal to Pliny , who has given it to literary pursuits in general , amœni ...
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... Italy , and the pride of the Romans in their Trojan ancestry , as their flat- tering Epic sanctioned , every modern people , in their * The existence of these giants was long historical , and their real origin was in the fourth verse of ...
... Italy , and the pride of the Romans in their Trojan ancestry , as their flat- tering Epic sanctioned , every modern people , in their * The existence of these giants was long historical , and their real origin was in the fourth verse of ...
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... Italy , and Gad , Nathan , and Asaph , prophesied in Israel . And the incidents of Lear's pathetic story occurred when Isaiah and Hosea flourished , and Rome was built by the two brothers . It tells of one of the British monarchs , how ...
... Italy , and Gad , Nathan , and Asaph , prophesied in Israel . And the incidents of Lear's pathetic story occurred when Isaiah and Hosea flourished , and Rome was built by the two brothers . It tells of one of the British monarchs , how ...
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... Italian , and the Briton , had drawn from the same source . The Satan of Cędmon in " the torture - house , " is represented as in " the dungeon of perdition . " He lies in chains , his feet bound , his hands manacled , his neck fastened ...
... Italian , and the Briton , had drawn from the same source . The Satan of Cędmon in " the torture - house , " is represented as in " the dungeon of perdition . " He lies in chains , his feet bound , his hands manacled , his neck fastened ...
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... Italian , the Spanish , and French . " We find no allusion to any of the northern tongues , which that votary of classical antiquity and of Ausonian melody and fancy would deem can we doubt it ? dissonant and barbarous . The Northern ...
... Italian , the Spanish , and French . " We find no allusion to any of the northern tongues , which that votary of classical antiquity and of Ausonian melody and fancy would deem can we doubt it ? dissonant and barbarous . The Northern ...
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Page 87 - JE ne suis pas de ceux qui disent : Ce n'est rien, C'est une femme qui se noie. Je dis que c'est beaucoup; et ce sexe vaut bien Que nous le regrettions, puisqu'il fait notre joie.
Page 49 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 46 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 8 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 237 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Page 224 - It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength and radiant armor, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies.
Page 48 - That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others...
Page 48 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 332 - This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.