Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities, Volumen4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... never.commend the narrow and pedantic spirit which limits all excellence to the ages that have long passed away , and beholds whatever is modern with silly and affected scorn . It is by the perpetual intermixture and comparison with ...
... never.commend the narrow and pedantic spirit which limits all excellence to the ages that have long passed away , and beholds whatever is modern with silly and affected scorn . It is by the perpetual intermixture and comparison with ...
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... when it is known that they have been furnished with never - ceasing regularity and copiousness amid the most constant and fatiguing undertakings of his own ; while with a fidelity and industry seldom equalled , and while.
... when it is known that they have been furnished with never - ceasing regularity and copiousness amid the most constant and fatiguing undertakings of his own ; while with a fidelity and industry seldom equalled , and while.
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... never exceeded , he was carrying through the press his augmented and most rich edition of Lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authors , which has just made its appearance ; collating the text for Sharpe's beautiful Collection of English Poets ...
... never exceeded , he was carrying through the press his augmented and most rich edition of Lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authors , which has just made its appearance ; collating the text for Sharpe's beautiful Collection of English Poets ...
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... added an Essay upon the State and Settlement of Ireland . All written by Sir William Temple , Baronet . Published from the originals of Sir William Temple's own hand VOL . IV . writing , writing , and never before printed . London .
... added an Essay upon the State and Settlement of Ireland . All written by Sir William Temple , Baronet . Published from the originals of Sir William Temple's own hand VOL . IV . writing , writing , and never before printed . London .
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... never before printed . London . Printed for Tho . Bennet , 1701. δυο . ART . III . The Right Honourable the Earl of Ar- lington's Letters to Sir William Temple , Baronet , from July 1665 , being the first of his employments abroad , to ...
... never before printed . London . Printed for Tho . Bennet , 1701. δυο . ART . III . The Right Honourable the Earl of Ar- lington's Letters to Sir William Temple , Baronet , from July 1665 , being the first of his employments abroad , to ...
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Página 44 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 283 - Nor undelightful is the solemn noon Of night, when haply wakeful from my couch I start : lo, all is motionless around ! Roars not the rushing wind ; the sons of men And every beast in mute oblivion lie ; All nature's hush'd in silence and in sleep. O then how fearful is it to reflect, That through the still globe's awful solitude, No being wakes but me ! till stealing sleep My drooping temples bathes in opiate dews.
Página 88 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Página 294 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, " and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine " origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important " history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language they may have been
Página 68 - married her as soon as she was able to quit the chamber, when the priest and all that saw her were affrighted to look on her. But God,' she adds, with a not ungraceful vanity, 'recompensed his justice and constancy, by restoring her as well as before.
Página 58 - I entertained myself with elder company, to whom I was very acceptable, and living in the house with many persons that had a great deal of wit, and very profitable serious discourses being frequent at my father's table and in my mother's...
Página 252 - Forget my frailties ; thou art also frail : Forgive my lapses ; for thyself mayst fall : Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale, I was a friend, O man ! to thee, to all.
Página 277 - To view the festive rites, the knightly play, That deck'd heroic Albion's elder day; To mark the mouldering halls of Barons bold, And the rough castle, cast in giant mould; With Gothic manners Gothic arts explore, And muse on the magnificence of yore.
Página 68 - ... made her the most deformed person that could be seen, for a great while after she recovered ; yet he was nothing troubled at it, but married her as soon as she was able to quit the chamber, when the priest and all that saw her were affrighted to look on her ; but God recompensed his justice and constancy by restoring her, though she was longer than ordinary before she recovered, as well as before.
Página 283 - O'er the wan heaps ; while airy voices talk Along the glimmering walls ; or ghostly shape, At distance seen, invites with beckoning hand My lonesome steps, through the far-winding vaults.