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... Masson. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA LIBRARY VERITAS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SPLURIBUS UCUN TUEBOR SI - QUÆRIS PENINSULAM AMONAM CIRCUMSPICE GIFT OF THE HEIRS OF WILLIAM HENRY WAIT , PH.D. Notice VOLUME V. , continuing the " BIOGRAPHIES " and.
... Masson. ARTES 1817 SCIENTIA LIBRARY VERITAS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SPLURIBUS UCUN TUEBOR SI - QUÆRIS PENINSULAM AMONAM CIRCUMSPICE GIFT OF THE HEIRS OF WILLIAM HENRY WAIT , PH.D. Notice VOLUME V. , continuing the " BIOGRAPHIES " and.
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Thomas De Quincey David Masson. Notice VOLUME V. , continuing the " BIOGRAPHIES " and " BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES , " will contain Dr. Samuel Parr ; Marquis Wellesley Coleridge and Opium- eating Charles Lamb ; Professor Wilson ( Christopher ...
Thomas De Quincey David Masson. Notice VOLUME V. , continuing the " BIOGRAPHIES " and " BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES , " will contain Dr. Samuel Parr ; Marquis Wellesley Coleridge and Opium- eating Charles Lamb ; Professor Wilson ( Christopher ...
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... notices that occur there of De Quincey's wife and children . De Quincey's marriage with Margaret Simpson , the daughter of a substantial Westmoreland yeoman , his near neighbour at Grasmere , occurred some time late in 1816 , when he ...
... notices that occur there of De Quincey's wife and children . De Quincey's marriage with Margaret Simpson , the daughter of a substantial Westmoreland yeoman , his near neighbour at Grasmere , occurred some time late in 1816 , when he ...
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... notice had they by chance " taken the opportunity of his necessary absence for visits to " friends or relatives ; and that the home was always left in " charge of a trusted old servant , living close at hand , to 66 prepare for an ...
... notice had they by chance " taken the opportunity of his necessary absence for visits to " friends or relatives ; and that the home was always left in " charge of a trusted old servant , living close at hand , to 66 prepare for an ...
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... notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune , created by his personal efforts , and by labours purely intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe , which has swept away so entirely the ...
... notice from the throne , had retired with an ample fortune , created by his personal efforts , and by labours purely intellectual . How are we to account , then , for that deluge , as if from Lethe , which has swept away so entirely the ...
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Page 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Page 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.