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... body seemed to be affected with a tremor inexpressible ; had his father's ghost actual- ly risen before him , he could not have been seised with more real agonies . This was felt so strongly by the spectators , that the blood seemed ...
... body seemed to be affected with a tremor inexpressible ; had his father's ghost actual- ly risen before him , he could not have been seised with more real agonies . This was felt so strongly by the spectators , that the blood seemed ...
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... body he was creating , in the librarian Demetrius Phalereus , whose industrious knowledge amassed from all nations their choicest productions . Without such a librarian , a national library would be little more than a literary Chaos ...
... body he was creating , in the librarian Demetrius Phalereus , whose industrious knowledge amassed from all nations their choicest productions . Without such a librarian , a national library would be little more than a literary Chaos ...
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... body of the peo- ple , Vanity induced the inexperienced and the igno- rant to aspire to literary honours . To oppose these forcible entries into the haunts of the Muses , Periodical Criticism brandished its formidable wea- pon ; and the ...
... body of the peo- ple , Vanity induced the inexperienced and the igno- rant to aspire to literary honours . To oppose these forcible entries into the haunts of the Muses , Periodical Criticism brandished its formidable wea- pon ; and the ...
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... body of law ; and a gram- marian , who was ruined by a fire , rebuilt his house with two small volumes of Cicero . At the restoration of letters , the researches of literary men were chiefly directed to this point ; every part of Europe ...
... body of law ; and a gram- marian , who was ruined by a fire , rebuilt his house with two small volumes of Cicero . At the restoration of letters , the researches of literary men were chiefly directed to this point ; every part of Europe ...
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... Bodies of Metals , & c . " It is written by Sir John Pettus , in folio , 1683. He gave it this title because he translated it from the German during his confine- ment in this prison . Louis the Twelfth , when Duke of Orleans , was long ...
... Bodies of Metals , & c . " It is written by Sir John Pettus , in folio , 1683. He gave it this title because he translated it from the German during his confine- ment in this prison . Louis the Twelfth , when Duke of Orleans , was long ...
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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.