Curiosities of Literature, Band 3E. Moxon, 1834 |
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... Roman citizen to a cook , who had prepared for him a good supper ! Many have been raised to extraordinary preferment by capricious monarchs for the sake of a jest . Lewis XI . promoted a poor priest whom he found sleeping in the porch ...
... Roman citizen to a cook , who had prepared for him a good supper ! Many have been raised to extraordinary preferment by capricious monarchs for the sake of a jest . Lewis XI . promoted a poor priest whom he found sleeping in the porch ...
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... Roman Pontiff great differences , and an irreconcilable hatred . God only knows which of the two is wrong . Therefore with all my power I ex- communicate him who injures the other ; and I absolve him who suffers , to the great scandal ...
... Roman Pontiff great differences , and an irreconcilable hatred . God only knows which of the two is wrong . Therefore with all my power I ex- communicate him who injures the other ; and I absolve him who suffers , to the great scandal ...
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... Roman names , such as Decius Mus ; Lucumo ; Vibius Caudex . same thing has happened to a friend who began an Epic on the subject of Drake's discoveries ; the name of the hero often will produce a ludicrous effect , but one of the most ...
... Roman names , such as Decius Mus ; Lucumo ; Vibius Caudex . same thing has happened to a friend who began an Epic on the subject of Drake's discoveries ; the name of the hero often will produce a ludicrous effect , but one of the most ...
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... Roman names , produce ludicrous associations ; Romulus Riggs , and Junius Brutus Booth . There was more sense , when the Foundling Hospital was first instituted , in baptizing the most robust boys , designed for the sea - service , by ...
... Roman names , produce ludicrous associations ; Romulus Riggs , and Junius Brutus Booth . There was more sense , when the Foundling Hospital was first instituted , in baptizing the most robust boys , designed for the sea - service , by ...
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... Romans and the Sabines , they agreed to melt the two nations into one mass , that they should bear their names con- jointly ; the Roman should add his to the Sabine , and the Sabine take a Roman name . The ancients named both persons ...
... Romans and the Sabines , they agreed to melt the two nations into one mass , that they should bear their names con- jointly ; the Roman should add his to the Sabine , and the Sabine take a Roman name . The ancients named both persons ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.