Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 ページ |
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... of Epic sets men a - yawning , the announcement of a new Epic is received as a public calamity . - ' But what if the impossible being once for all quite discarded , the probable be well adhered to : how stands it THOMAS CARLYLE 7.
... of Epic sets men a - yawning , the announcement of a new Epic is received as a public calamity . - ' But what if the impossible being once for all quite discarded , the probable be well adhered to : how stands it THOMAS CARLYLE 7.
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... received in Irish peerage the barony of Cherbury , 1629 , and seat in council of war , 1632 ; attended Charles I on Scottish ex- pedition , 1639-40 ; committed to the Tower for royalist speech in House of Lords , 1642 , but released on ...
... received in Irish peerage the barony of Cherbury , 1629 , and seat in council of war , 1632 ; attended Charles I on Scottish ex- pedition , 1639-40 ; committed to the Tower for royalist speech in House of Lords , 1642 , but released on ...
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... received a stab with his dagger on my right side , which ran down my ribs as far as my hip , which I feeling , did with my right elbow force his hand , together with the hilt of the dagger , so near the upper part of my right side ...
... received a stab with his dagger on my right side , which ran down my ribs as far as my hip , which I feeling , did with my right elbow force his hand , together with the hilt of the dagger , so near the upper part of my right side ...
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... received many noble visits and messages from some of the best in the kingdom . Being now fully recovered of my hurts , I desired Sir Robert Harley to go to Sir John Ayres , and tell him , that though I thought he had not so much honour ...
... received many noble visits and messages from some of the best in the kingdom . Being now fully recovered of my hurts , I desired Sir Robert Harley to go to Sir John Ayres , and tell him , that though I thought he had not so much honour ...
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... received the name . Boyle's ' Hydrostatics ' was ' of infinite delight ' to him , walking in Barnes Elms . We find him comparing Bible concord-- ances , a captious judge of sermons , deep in Descartes and Aristotle . We find him , in a ...
... received the name . Boyle's ' Hydrostatics ' was ' of infinite delight ' to him , walking in Barnes Elms . We find him comparing Bible concord-- ances , a captious judge of sermons , deep in Descartes and Aristotle . We find him , in a ...
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617 ページ - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
71 ページ - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
78 ページ - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
459 ページ - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
61 ページ - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
325 ページ - How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
371 ページ - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
257 ページ - The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of Thirty-eight, of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author that they might be fairly copied. " Almost every line," he said,
212 ページ - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
454 ページ - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].