Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3E. Moxon, 1834 - English literature |
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... curious particulars are scattered amongst foreign writers , which display the superstitious preju- dices which prevailed on this occasion , and , perhaps , develop the mysterious politics of the courts of Spain and Rome . Cardinal ...
... curious particulars are scattered amongst foreign writers , which display the superstitious preju- dices which prevailed on this occasion , and , perhaps , develop the mysterious politics of the courts of Spain and Rome . Cardinal ...
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... curious collection of memoirs than anecdotes of preferment . " Could the secret history of great men be traced , it would appear that merit is rarely the first step to advancement . It would much oftener be found to be owing to ...
... curious collection of memoirs than anecdotes of preferment . " Could the secret history of great men be traced , it would appear that merit is rarely the first step to advancement . It would much oftener be found to be owing to ...
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... is sufficiently curious ; the follow- ing contains the facts : - FIRE - WORKS were not known to antiquity . - It is certainly a modern invention . If ever the ancients employed 24 FIRE , AND THE FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIRE-WORKS.
... is sufficiently curious ; the follow- ing contains the facts : - FIRE - WORKS were not known to antiquity . - It is certainly a modern invention . If ever the ancients employed 24 FIRE , AND THE FIRE, AND THE ORIGIN OF FIRE-WORKS.
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... curious to sketch an account of the probable situation of Europe at the pre- sent moment , had the pontiffs preserved the omnipotent power of which they had gradually possessed themselves . It appears by an act dated in 1516 , that the ...
... curious to sketch an account of the probable situation of Europe at the pre- sent moment , had the pontiffs preserved the omnipotent power of which they had gradually possessed themselves . It appears by an act dated in 1516 , that the ...
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... curious , or interesting adventure , " & c . This good father had caught the language of the beau monde , but with such perfect simplicity that , in employing it on sacred history , he was not aware of the ludicrous he was writing . A ...
... curious , or interesting adventure , " & c . This good father had caught the language of the beau monde , but with such perfect simplicity that , in employing it on sacred history , he was not aware of the ludicrous he was writing . A ...
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Page 148 - 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 164 - 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 144 - 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 262 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 155 - 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 154 - Though poverty's cold wind, and crushing rain, Beat keen, and heavy on thy tender years.' Oh, let me now, into a richer soil, Transplant thee safe ! where vernal suns and showers, Diffuse their warmest, largest influence : And of my garden be the pride, and joy...
Page 150 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 159 - ... 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 147 - There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring.
Page 164 - With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey ; His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies ; She, trembling, creeps upon the ground away, And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.