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... reason for buying the most ele- gant editions ; which he did not consider merely as a liter ary luxury . He said the ... reasons ; the displeasing truths which he corrects , as he happened , besides , that in second editions , the author ...
... reason for buying the most ele- gant editions ; which he did not consider merely as a liter ary luxury . He said the ... reasons ; the displeasing truths which he corrects , as he happened , besides , that in second editions , the author ...
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... reason to believe , that when a man of letters accidentally obtained an unknown work , he did not make the fairest use of it , and cautiously concealed it from his contemporaries . Leonard Aretino , a distinguished scholar at the dawn ...
... reason to believe , that when a man of letters accidentally obtained an unknown work , he did not make the fairest use of it , and cautiously concealed it from his contemporaries . Leonard Aretino , a distinguished scholar at the dawn ...
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... reason that should pro- perly help to loose the knot I would untie . For me , who only desired to become more wise ... reasons at the first dash I am for discourses that give the first charge into the heart of the doubts ; his languish ...
... reason that should pro- perly help to loose the knot I would untie . For me , who only desired to become more wise ... reasons at the first dash I am for discourses that give the first charge into the heart of the doubts ; his languish ...
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... reason in- duced him to undertake this task : for it is , says he , to forestall the artifices of Satan . He supposes that the Devil , to ruin the fruit of this work , employed two very malicious frauds : the first before it was printed ...
... reason in- duced him to undertake this task : for it is , says he , to forestall the artifices of Satan . He supposes that the Devil , to ruin the fruit of this work , employed two very malicious frauds : the first before it was printed ...
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... reason Philip the Second built a bridge eleven hundred feet long ! -A Spaniard passing it one day , when it was perfectly dry , observing this superb bridge , archly remarked , That it would be proper that the bridge should be sold to ...
... reason Philip the Second built a bridge eleven hundred feet long ! -A Spaniard passing it one day , when it was perfectly dry , observing this superb bridge , archly remarked , That it would be proper that the bridge should be sold to ...
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Page 150 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard, apart, Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Page 193 - Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.
Page 100 - 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.
Page 181 - ... before him ; if in this the most consummate act of his fidelity and ripeness, no years, no industry, no former proof of his abilities can bring him to that state of maturity, as not to be still mistrusted and suspected, unless he carry all his considerate diligence, all his midnight watchings, and expense of Palladian oil, to the hasty view of an unleisured licenser, perhaps much his younger, perhaps far his inferior in judgment, perhaps one who never knew the labour of bookwriting...
Page 9 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 181 - When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him. He searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends; after all which done, he takes himself to be informed in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him.
Page 122 - God's sake, when shall I see thee again ? On my soul I shall neither eat nor sleep until you come again. The earl told him on Monday (this being on the Friday). For God's sake let me...
Page 150 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 148 - 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.
Page 261 - Thus accoutred, the Lady Arabella stole out with a gentleman about three o'clock in the afternoon. She...