Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review ...Longman, 1850 - Biography |
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... Latin inscription , which has the rare merit of telling but little more than the truth , closes with an antithetical conceit , so much in Fuller's vein , that it would have done his heart good , could he but have read the following ...
... Latin inscription , which has the rare merit of telling but little more than the truth , closes with an antithetical conceit , so much in Fuller's vein , that it would have done his heart good , could he but have read the following ...
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... Latin , of about the same order of merit . The subject of it was an abbé named Lance- lot Joseph de Maniban , who professed to interpret the characters and prognosticate the fortunes of strangers by an inspection of their handwriting ...
... Latin , of about the same order of merit . The subject of it was an abbé named Lance- lot Joseph de Maniban , who professed to interpret the characters and prognosticate the fortunes of strangers by an inspection of their handwriting ...
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... Latin secretary . In this letter , after describing Marvell as a man of ' sin- gular desert , ' both from ' report ' and personal ' con- verse , ' he proceeds to say - ' He hath spent four years abroad , in Holland , France , Italy ...
... Latin secretary . In this letter , after describing Marvell as a man of ' sin- gular desert , ' both from ' report ' and personal ' con- verse , ' he proceeds to say - ' He hath spent four years abroad , in Holland , France , Italy ...
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... Latin secretary with Milton ; Cromwell died in the following year ; and from this period till the Parliament of 1660 , there is no further trace of him . We have seen it affirmed that he became member for Hull in 1658. But this is not ...
... Latin secretary with Milton ; Cromwell died in the following year ; and from this period till the Parliament of 1660 , there is no further trace of him . We have seen it affirmed that he became member for Hull in 1658. But this is not ...
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... . Who best could know to pump an earth so leak , Him they their lord , and country's father , speak . ' His Latin poems are amongst his best . The com- position often shows no contemptible skill in that language ; ANDREW MARVELL . 95.
... . Who best could know to pump an earth so leak , Him they their lord , and country's father , speak . ' His Latin poems are amongst his best . The com- position often shows no contemptible skill in that language ; ANDREW MARVELL . 95.
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Page 14 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Page 233 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 42 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 95 - Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand ; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heav'd the lead ; Or what by th
Page 89 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Page 7 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Page 289 - Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds had shown them, made their hands shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steadily through the glass; yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place.
Page 488 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Page 431 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 18 - Philosophers place it in the rear of the head, and it seems the mine of memory lies there, because there men naturally dig for it, scratching it when they are at a loss.