Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Svazek 2J. & H.G. Langley, 1841 |
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... written , as the author him- self expressed it , for " the simple people , " should be chained to the desk of every church and common hall In this Book of Martyrs , gathered from all quarters , and chronicling the obscurest individuals ...
... written , as the author him- self expressed it , for " the simple people , " should be chained to the desk of every church and common hall In this Book of Martyrs , gathered from all quarters , and chronicling the obscurest individuals ...
Strana 21
... written by one of the most ac- complished ladies of the sixteenth century , " the friend of scholars and the patron of literature . " Dr. Nott , who has supplied this literary curiosity , has modernised the passage word by word ; and ...
... written by one of the most ac- complished ladies of the sixteenth century , " the friend of scholars and the patron of literature . " Dr. Nott , who has supplied this literary curiosity , has modernised the passage word by word ; and ...
Strana 22
... written the word sovereign . The royal mistress of eight languages seemed at a loss which to choose for her command . The orthography of others eminent for their learning was as remarkable , and sometimes more eruditely whimsical ...
... written the word sovereign . The royal mistress of eight languages seemed at a loss which to choose for her command . The orthography of others eminent for their learning was as remarkable , and sometimes more eruditely whimsical ...
Strana 23
... written on his own system of a new orthography . His ear was nice , and his Attic taste had the singular merit of ... writing of English words . He designed to relieve the ear from the clash of super- Lumerary consonants , and to liquefy ...
... written on his own system of a new orthography . His ear was nice , and his Attic taste had the singular merit of ... writing of English words . He designed to relieve the ear from the clash of super- Lumerary consonants , and to liquefy ...
Strana 25
... writing of the English tongue , " failed , though his principle seems one of the most ob- vious in simplicity . This scholar , a master of St. Paul's school , freed from collegiate prejudices , maintained that " words should be written ...
... writing of the English tongue , " failed , though his principle seems one of the most ob- vious in simplicity . This scholar , a master of St. Paul's school , freed from collegiate prejudices , maintained that " words should be written ...
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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.