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... and all of them ; - To the ingenious and learned friend , as deeply versed in professional science as he is conversant with all the branches of polite literature , while the small portion of leisure time PREFACE . xxi.
... and all of them ; - To the ingenious and learned friend , as deeply versed in professional science as he is conversant with all the branches of polite literature , while the small portion of leisure time PREFACE . xxi.
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... learned , yet the least pedantic of men ; of know- ledge and literature the most profound , because acquired by the most capacious and most retentive memory ; possessed too of the quickest , keenest sense of ridicule , with the happiest ...
... learned , yet the least pedantic of men ; of know- ledge and literature the most profound , because acquired by the most capacious and most retentive memory ; possessed too of the quickest , keenest sense of ridicule , with the happiest ...
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... learned controversy among the Italian Critics whether it was not to be considered as of the class of the true Epic . At first sight a modern reader must be surprised to find the great Tor- quato himself , in one of his numerous critical ...
... learned controversy among the Italian Critics whether it was not to be considered as of the class of the true Epic . At first sight a modern reader must be surprised to find the great Tor- quato himself , in one of his numerous critical ...
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... learned at the re- vival of letters , and for many years afterwards . 18 Scipio Carteromachus , a Pistoian , and no doubt of our author's family , a learned man who lived during the reign , and some time in the service , of Leo the ...
... learned at the re- vival of letters , and for many years afterwards . 18 Scipio Carteromachus , a Pistoian , and no doubt of our author's family , a learned man who lived during the reign , and some time in the service , of Leo the ...
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... learned that the author of that translation is a gentleman of great classical attainments , and known to the literary world by many happy imitations both of the Greek and Latin poets . It has never entered into my thoughts to pro- ceed ...
... learned that the author of that translation is a gentleman of great classical attainments , and known to the literary world by many happy imitations both of the Greek and Latin poets . It has never entered into my thoughts to pro- ceed ...
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Page 118 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 169 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 163 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. These many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 167 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 169 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 124 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 123 - Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. XXI. [TO CYRIACK SKINNER.] CYRIACK, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause, Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench...
Page 144 - Et de porter le nom de son amant! Votre maison, vos gens, votre livrée, Tout vous retrace une image adorée; Et vos enfants, ces gages précieux, Nés de l'amour, en sont de nouveaux nœuds.
Page 170 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking.
Page 163 - Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.