Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 1J. & H. G. Langley, 1841 - Authors, English |
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... placed above the vicissitudes of humanity , their own more solitary passions were the stronger , violently compressed within a higher sphere : ambition , envy , and revenge , those curses of nobler minds , often broke their dreams . The ...
... placed above the vicissitudes of humanity , their own more solitary passions were the stronger , violently compressed within a higher sphere : ambition , envy , and revenge , those curses of nobler minds , often broke their dreams . The ...
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... placed this possible circumstance in the article " A History of Events which have not happened , " in " Curiosities of Literature . " † Sir GARDINER WILKINSON , in the curious volume of his recon- dite discoveries in the land of the ...
... placed this possible circumstance in the article " A History of Events which have not happened , " in " Curiosities of Literature . " † Sir GARDINER WILKINSON , in the curious volume of his recon- dite discoveries in the land of the ...
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... placed in other times and amid other manners , was estranged from any community of feeling with a people who were then sunk into the helots of England . MILTON , in his history of Britain , imagined that the transactions of the Anglo ...
... placed in other times and amid other manners , was estranged from any community of feeling with a people who were then sunk into the helots of England . MILTON , in his history of Britain , imagined that the transactions of the Anglo ...
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... placed on a rack . beside him " at all times ready for combat both in house and field . " This scene is truly Homeric ; and thus we find in the early state of Greece , for the historian records this con- tinual wearing of armor , like ...
... placed on a rack . beside him " at all times ready for combat both in house and field . " This scene is truly Homeric ; and thus we find in the early state of Greece , for the historian records this con- tinual wearing of armor , like ...
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... placed this Sappho of the thirteenth century among the women of England . This poetess tells us , that she had turned into her French rhymed verse the Æsopian Fables , which one of our kings had translated into English from the Latin ...
... placed this Sappho of the thirteenth century among the women of England . This poetess tells us , that she had turned into her French rhymed verse the Æsopian Fables , which one of our kings had translated into English from the Latin ...
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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.