Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... favorites of an hour , in the cir- cles of her royalty were seen the most laborious states- men our annals record , and a generation of romantic commanders ; the secretaries of state were eminently learned ; and the queen was all these ...
... favorites of an hour , in the cir- cles of her royalty were seen the most laborious states- men our annals record , and a generation of romantic commanders ; the secretaries of state were eminently learned ; and the queen was all these ...
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... physical science ? In the revelations of the Verulamian philosophy , it was a favorite axiom with its founder , that we subdue Nature by yielding to her . 21 ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY . SOME of the first scholars 20 PUBLIC OPINION .
... physical science ? In the revelations of the Verulamian philosophy , it was a favorite axiom with its founder , that we subdue Nature by yielding to her . 21 ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY . SOME of the first scholars 20 PUBLIC OPINION .
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... favorite Leicester , yet spelt his name Lecester ; and Leicester himself has subscribed his own name eight different ways.t At that period down to a much later , every one seems to have been at a loss to write their own names . The name ...
... favorite Leicester , yet spelt his name Lecester ; and Leicester himself has subscribed his own name eight different ways.t At that period down to a much later , every one seems to have been at a loss to write their own names . The name ...
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... favorite female servant ; but he infers that " he probably was the author . " Yet , at the same time , there turned up another will of one Richard Puttenham , a prisoner in her Majesty's Bench . " Richard therefore may have as valid ...
... favorite female servant ; but he infers that " he probably was the author . " Yet , at the same time , there turned up another will of one Richard Puttenham , a prisoner in her Majesty's Bench . " Richard therefore may have as valid ...
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... favorites as " solid reading . " In the days of Reginald Scot our scholars never ventured to quote other author- ity than some ancient ; but the poets from Homer to Ovid , the historians from Tacitus to Valerius Maximus , and the ...
... favorites as " solid reading . " In the days of Reginald Scot our scholars never ventured to quote other author- ity than some ancient ; but the poets from Homer to Ovid , the historians from Tacitus to Valerius Maximus , and the ...
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Strana 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Strana 197 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Strana 188 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o...
Strana 117 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes...
Strana 360 - 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...
Strana 12 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.
Strana 193 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Strana 334 - Learning," translated into Latin, but so enlarged as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not.
Strana 204 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Strana 158 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.