Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 ページ |
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... thousands of persons whose names are an honour to this nation , and would equally honour that of any other in Europe . Latin and French ( the former barbarous and incorrect ) were the two languages in which the learned preferred to ...
... thousands of persons whose names are an honour to this nation , and would equally honour that of any other in Europe . Latin and French ( the former barbarous and incorrect ) were the two languages in which the learned preferred to ...
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... voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; Return Sicilian Muse , And call the Vales , and bid them hither cast Their Bells , and Flourets of a thousand hues . VOL . III . M Ye Ye Valleys low where the mild whispers use , Of 161.
... voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; Return Sicilian Muse , And call the Vales , and bid them hither cast Their Bells , and Flourets of a thousand hues . VOL . III . M Ye Ye Valleys low where the mild whispers use , Of 161.
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... thousands of fragments of old writ- ings , some near 1000 years old ; as a piece of Virgil with figures not far behind that in the Va- tican ; other pieces where the writing hath been scraped out , for want of vellum to write other ...
... thousands of fragments of old writ- ings , some near 1000 years old ; as a piece of Virgil with figures not far behind that in the Va- tican ; other pieces where the writing hath been scraped out , for want of vellum to write other ...
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... thousand pounds , to build a new room for the disposition of the books which , by its plan , will far exceed that of the Vati- can at Rome , or that at Paris . And to give you an idea of this great work , I send you the his- tory of ...
... thousand pounds , to build a new room for the disposition of the books which , by its plan , will far exceed that of the Vati- can at Rome , or that at Paris . And to give you an idea of this great work , I send you the his- tory of ...
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... thousands more , that a new catalogue is now composing by the learned Dr. Hudson , the present library - keeper , which will give the world full satisfaction in this point ; and that as soon as may be . As to the manuscripts , an ac ...
... thousands more , that a new catalogue is now composing by the learned Dr. Hudson , the present library - keeper , which will give the world full satisfaction in this point ; and that as soon as may be . As to the manuscripts , an ac ...
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81 ページ - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
162 ページ - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
161 ページ - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
153 ページ - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
192 ページ - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
30 ページ - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
189 ページ - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
153 ページ - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
181 ページ - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
187 ページ - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...