Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3E. Moxon, 1834 - English literature |
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... Henry Wotton has written an interesting life of our duke . At school his character fully discovered itself , even at that early period of life . He would not apply to any serious studies , but excelled in those 6 DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM .
... Henry Wotton has written an interesting life of our duke . At school his character fully discovered itself , even at that early period of life . He would not apply to any serious studies , but excelled in those 6 DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM .
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Isaac Disraeli. apply to any serious studies , but excelled in those lighter qualifications adapted to please in the world . He was a graceful horseman , musician , and dancer . His mother withdrew him from school at the early age of ...
Isaac Disraeli. apply to any serious studies , but excelled in those lighter qualifications adapted to please in the world . He was a graceful horseman , musician , and dancer . His mother withdrew him from school at the early age of ...
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... studies , and wrote against the habits which he himself most loved . By this it may appear , that that of which we have the least experience ourselves , will ever be what appears most delightful ! Alas ! every thing in life seems to ...
... studies , and wrote against the habits which he himself most loved . By this it may appear , that that of which we have the least experience ourselves , will ever be what appears most delightful ! Alas ! every thing in life seems to ...
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... studies . Montesquieu quitted the brilliant circles of Paris for his books , his meditations , and for his immortal work , and was ridiculed by the gay triflers he relinquished . Har- rington , to compose his Oceana , severed himself ...
... studies . Montesquieu quitted the brilliant circles of Paris for his books , his meditations , and for his immortal work , and was ridiculed by the gay triflers he relinquished . Har- rington , to compose his Oceana , severed himself ...
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... studies . His work on the " Origin of the Arts and Sciences " had been much indebted to his aid . Fugere , who knew his friend to be past recovery , preserved a mute despair , during the slow and painful disease ; and on the death of ...
... studies . His work on the " Origin of the Arts and Sciences " had been much indebted to his aid . Fugere , who knew his friend to be past recovery , preserved a mute despair , during the slow and painful disease ; and on the death of ...
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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.