Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3Lilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833 - Literature |
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... Italian theatre , 56 66 Songs of trades , or songs for the people , 70 Introducers of exotic flowers , fruits , etc. , 81 Usurers of the seventeenth century , 96 Chidiock Titchbourne , 106 Elizabeth and her parliament , 116 Anecdotes of ...
... Italian theatre , 56 66 Songs of trades , or songs for the people , 70 Introducers of exotic flowers , fruits , etc. , 81 Usurers of the seventeenth century , 96 Chidiock Titchbourne , 106 Elizabeth and her parliament , 116 Anecdotes of ...
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... Italian school of English poetry , he would never have formed so tasteless a criticism . Honied is employed by Milton in more places than one , but one is sufficient for my purpose . " Hide me from day's garish eye While the bee with ...
... Italian school of English poetry , he would never have formed so tasteless a criticism . Honied is employed by Milton in more places than one , but one is sufficient for my purpose . " Hide me from day's garish eye While the bee with ...
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... Italian heaven . Milton in Italy had experienced the brown evening , but it may be suspected that Thom- son only recollected the language of the poet . The same observation may be made on two other poetical epithets . I shall notice the ...
... Italian heaven . Milton in Italy had experienced the brown evening , but it may be suspected that Thom- son only recollected the language of the poet . The same observation may be made on two other poetical epithets . I shall notice the ...
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Isaac Disraeli. The natives of Italy and the softer climates receive emotions from the view of their WATERS in the ... Italian , having before his eyes a different spring , found no difficulty in agreeing with the ancients , that the ...
Isaac Disraeli. The natives of Italy and the softer climates receive emotions from the view of their WATERS in the ... Italian , having before his eyes a different spring , found no difficulty in agreeing with the ancients , that the ...
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... Italy , from 1530 to 1580 , a vast multitude of books were written on love ; the fashion of writing on that subject ( for certainly it was not always a passion with the indefatigable writer ) , was an epidemical dis- temper . They wrote ...
... Italy , from 1530 to 1580 , a vast multitude of books were written on love ; the fashion of writing on that subject ( for certainly it was not always a passion with the indefatigable writer ) , was an epidemical dis- temper . They wrote ...
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Page 19 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 26 - ... human, 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...
Page 116 - ... and yet I was not seen; My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun; And now I live, and now my life is done! I sought my death, and found it in my womb; I looked for life, and saw it was a shade; I trod the earth, and knew it was my tomb; And now I die, and now I am but made; The glass is full, and now my glass is run; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 30 - 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...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 31 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 16 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 71 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 178 - It cannot be denied, but that he who is made judge to sit upon the birth or death of books, whether they may be wafted into this world or not, had need to be a man above the common measure, both studious, learned and judicious...
Page 26 - My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend...