Curiosities of Literature, Tom 4J. Murray, 1823 |
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... ancients 143 Natural productions resembling artificial composi- tions 145 The poetical garland of Julia 149 The violet 151 Tragic actors 152 Jocular preachers 157 Masterly imitators 169 Edward the Fourth 175 Elizabeth 179 The Chinese ...
... ancients 143 Natural productions resembling artificial composi- tions 145 The poetical garland of Julia 149 The violet 151 Tragic actors 152 Jocular preachers 157 Masterly imitators 169 Edward the Fourth 175 Elizabeth 179 The Chinese ...
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... write when he fixed his famous pillars . The most ancient mode of writing was on bricks , tiles , and oyster - shells , and on tables of VOL . IV . B stone ; afterwards on plates of various materials , on Origin of the materials of writing.
... write when he fixed his famous pillars . The most ancient mode of writing was on bricks , tiles , and oyster - shells , and on tables of VOL . IV . B stone ; afterwards on plates of various materials , on Origin of the materials of writing.
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... ancient book of eight * Specimens of most of these modes of writing may be seen in the British Museum . No. 3478 ... ancients , doubtless , wrote on any leaves they found adapted for the purpose . Hence the leaf of a book , alluding to ...
... ancient book of eight * Specimens of most of these modes of writing may be seen in the British Museum . No. 3478 ... ancients , doubtless , wrote on any leaves they found adapted for the purpose . Hence the leaf of a book , alluding to ...
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... large house , on the bulks and spars of which he had engraved the history of his own and more ancient times ; while another northern hero appears to have had no- thing better than his own chair and bed to per- B 2 OF WRITING . 3.
... large house , on the bulks and spars of which he had engraved the history of his own and more ancient times ; while another northern hero appears to have had no- thing better than his own chair and bed to per- B 2 OF WRITING . 3.
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... ancient Arabs , who , accord- ing to the history of Mahomet , seem to have taken the shoulder - bones of sheep , on which they carved remarkable events with a knife , and after tying them with a string they hung these chroni- cles up in ...
... ancient Arabs , who , accord- ing to the history of Mahomet , seem to have taken the shoulder - bones of sheep , on which they carved remarkable events with a knife , and after tying them with a string they hung these chroni- cles up in ...
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Strona 144 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Strona 160 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Strona 137 - The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind...
Strona 135 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Strona 283 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.
Strona 154 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Strona 218 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strona 146 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
Strona 149 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Strona 153 - Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.