Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2J. Murray, 1807 - English literature |
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Page 77
... passed always amongst most of his acquaintance for what is commonly called a Whig ; for it seems the Romish politics are divided as well as Popish missionaries . However one Esdras , an apothecary , ( as he qualifies himself ) has ...
... passed always amongst most of his acquaintance for what is commonly called a Whig ; for it seems the Romish politics are divided as well as Popish missionaries . However one Esdras , an apothecary , ( as he qualifies himself ) has ...
Page 104
... passed from this transitory life to the regions of eternity . On one side of this lowest platform was the resemblance of a dark pitchy cavern from whence issued appearance of fire and flames ; and when it was necessary , the audience ...
... passed from this transitory life to the regions of eternity . On one side of this lowest platform was the resemblance of a dark pitchy cavern from whence issued appearance of fire and flames ; and when it was necessary , the audience ...
Page 117
... passed during the nine months in which the Virgin was confined in the womb of her mother St. Anne . After the birth of Mary she received an augmen- tation of angelic Guards ; gives us very accurately several conversations which God held ...
... passed during the nine months in which the Virgin was confined in the womb of her mother St. Anne . After the birth of Mary she received an augmen- tation of angelic Guards ; gives us very accurately several conversations which God held ...
Page 131
... passed through the press . In a pamphlet written thirty years ago , I have discovered an anecdote probably for- gotten : -Sterne , when he had finished his first and second volume of Tristram Shandy , offered them to a bookseller at ...
... passed through the press . In a pamphlet written thirty years ago , I have discovered an anecdote probably for- gotten : -Sterne , when he had finished his first and second volume of Tristram Shandy , offered them to a bookseller at ...
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... passed by . The criticisms of those who lived in or near the times when authors flourished merit our observation . They sometimes elicit a ray of intelligence , which later opinions do not always give . He observes on SPENSER- " The ...
... passed by . The criticisms of those who lived in or near the times when authors flourished merit our observation . They sometimes elicit a ray of intelligence , which later opinions do not always give . He observes on SPENSER- " The ...
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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...