Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1J. Murray, 1807 - Anecdotes |
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... King of Macedon , brought to Rome a great number of Mss . , which he had amassed in Greece , and distributed among his sons , or presented to the Roman people . Sylla followed his example : after the siege of Athens , he discovered an ...
... King of Macedon , brought to Rome a great number of Mss . , which he had amassed in Greece , and distributed among his sons , or presented to the Roman people . Sylla followed his example : after the siege of Athens , he discovered an ...
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... King's Library at 225,000 printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and 7,000 genealogies . The pleasures of study are classed by Burton among those exercises or recreations of the mind which pass within doors . He ...
... King's Library at 225,000 printed books ; 70,000 MSS .; 15,000 collections of prints ; and 7,000 genealogies . The pleasures of study are classed by Burton among those exercises or recreations of the mind which pass within doors . He ...
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... king asked what there was new in the literary world ? Racine answered , that he had seen a melancholy spectacle in the house of Corneille , whom he found dying , deprived even of a little broth ! The king preserved a profound silence ...
... king asked what there was new in the literary world ? Racine answered , that he had seen a melancholy spectacle in the house of Corneille , whom he found dying , deprived even of a little broth ! The king preserved a profound silence ...
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... of his life in jail , where indeed he died . After the Restoration , when he presented to the king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for 48 THE POVERTY OF THE LEARNED .
... of his life in jail , where indeed he died . After the Restoration , when he presented to the king several of the privy council's books , which he had preserved from ruin , he received for 48 THE POVERTY OF THE LEARNED .
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... king of France , confined in the Louvre , pursued very warmly the studies of elegant literature , and com- posed a very skilful Apology for the irregularities of her conduct . Charles the First , during his cruel confinement at Holmsby ...
... king of France , confined in the Louvre , pursued very warmly the studies of elegant literature , and com- posed a very skilful Apology for the irregularities of her conduct . Charles the First , during his cruel confinement at Holmsby ...
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Page 503 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 51 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 502 - I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Page 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Page 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Page 496 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. E 2 My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Page 134 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars 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.
Page 146 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
Page 464 - Were I to tell you that I do not mean to marry, I might say less than I intend ; and were I to tell you that I do mean to marry, I might say more than it is proper for you to know; therefore I give you an answer, ANSWERLESS !
Page 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.