Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2J. Murray, 1807 - English literature |
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... gives an example . To mark by a chronogram the date 1506 he finds the follow- ing from Horace : - feriam sidera vertice , And by a strange elevation of CAPITALS the Chro- nogrammatist compels even Horace to give the year of our Lord ...
... gives an example . To mark by a chronogram the date 1506 he finds the follow- ing from Horace : - feriam sidera vertice , And by a strange elevation of CAPITALS the Chro- nogrammatist compels even Horace to give the year of our Lord ...
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... give an example of these poetical echos . The following ones are ingenious , lively , and satirical.- Pour nous plaire , un plumet Met Tout en usage : Mais on trouve souvent Vent Dans son langage . On y voit des Commis Mis Comme des ...
... give an example of these poetical echos . The following ones are ingenious , lively , and satirical.- Pour nous plaire , un plumet Met Tout en usage : Mais on trouve souvent Vent Dans son langage . On y voit des Commis Mis Comme des ...
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... give one more instance in the following non- sensical lines of Du Bartas , in which this poet ima- gined that he imitated the harmonious notes of the lark : La gentille alouette , avec son tirelire , Tirelire à lire , et tireliran tire ...
... give one more instance in the following non- sensical lines of Du Bartas , in which this poet ima- gined that he imitated the harmonious notes of the lark : La gentille alouette , avec son tirelire , Tirelire à lire , et tireliran tire ...
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... give the same words whether read backwards or forwards . The following line is a curious specimen : " " Signa te signa temere me tangis et angis . " The reader has only to take the pains of reading the line backwards , and he will find ...
... give the same words whether read backwards or forwards . The following line is a curious specimen : " " Signa te signa temere me tangis et angis . " The reader has only to take the pains of reading the line backwards , and he will find ...
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... . IN the article MILTON , of the preceding volume , I had occasion to give , some strictures on the aspe- rity of literary controversy : the specimens I brought forward were drawn from his own and Saf- masius's C 2 LITERARY FOLLIES . 19.
... . IN the article MILTON , of the preceding volume , I had occasion to give , some strictures on the aspe- rity of literary controversy : the specimens I brought forward were drawn from his own and Saf- masius's C 2 LITERARY FOLLIES . 19.
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Page 483 - 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 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Page 478 - ... 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 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Page 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 460 - 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 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Page 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...