Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Nide 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence . This practice Lord Orrery2 imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence . This practice Lord Orrery2 imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
Sivu 30
... night , and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the Dean ordered him to put off his livery , and leave the house ; " for , " says he , " I know ...
... night , and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the Dean ordered him to put off his livery , and leave the house ; " for , " says he , " I know ...
Sivu 86
... nights disturbed by dreams of long journeys through unknown ways , and wished , as he said , that some- body would hang him . * This misery , however , was not of long continuance ; he grew by degrees more acquainted with Homer's images ...
... nights disturbed by dreams of long journeys through unknown ways , and wished , as he said , that some- body would hang him . * This misery , however , was not of long continuance ; he grew by degrees more acquainted with Homer's images ...
Sivu 95
... night : directs Fly hence , delusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th ' embattled train , March all his legions to the dusty plain . Now tell the King ' tis given him to ...
... night : directs Fly hence , delusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th ' embattled train , March all his legions to the dusty plain . Now tell the King ' tis given him to ...
Sivu 97
... night , O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene , And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ...
... night , O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene , And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ...
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Sivu 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Sivu 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Sivu 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Sivu 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Sivu 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Sivu 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Sivu 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Sivu 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Sivu 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sivu 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.