Curiosities of Literature, Tom 4J. Murray, 1823 |
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... persons having used them as daggers . A school- master was killed by the Pugillares or table - books , and the styles of his own scholars . They sub- stituted a stylus made of the bone of a bird , or other animal ; so that their ...
... persons having used them as daggers . A school- master was killed by the Pugillares or table - books , and the styles of his own scholars . They sub- stituted a stylus made of the bone of a bird , or other animal ; so that their ...
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... persons of quality dined then the latest at ten ; and supper was at five or six in the evening . We may observe this in the preface to the Heptaemeron of the Queen of Navarre , where this princess delineating the mode of life which the ...
... persons of quality dined then the latest at ten ; and supper was at five or six in the evening . We may observe this in the preface to the Heptaemeron of the Queen of Navarre , where this princess delineating the mode of life which the ...
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... persons to employ him . was the 12th of May , ordered his troops to occupy various posts in Paris . Davila writes , that the inhabitants , warned by the noise of the drums , began to shut their doors and shops , which , according to the ...
... persons to employ him . was the 12th of May , ordered his troops to occupy various posts in Paris . Davila writes , that the inhabitants , warned by the noise of the drums , began to shut their doors and shops , which , according to the ...
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... person according to the fashion , if it be one that is not troublesome and uneasy for men of heroic exercises and ... persons are . He shifts or- dinarily once a day , and every time when he uses exercise , or his temper is more hot ...
... person according to the fashion , if it be one that is not troublesome and uneasy for men of heroic exercises and ... persons are . He shifts or- dinarily once a day , and every time when he uses exercise , or his temper is more hot ...
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... persons in the same scene ; before his time they rarely exceeded two persons ; if a third ap- peared , he was usually a mute actor , who never joined the other two . The state of the theatre was even then very rude ; freedoms of the ...
... persons in the same scene ; before his time they rarely exceeded two persons ; if a third ap- peared , he was usually a mute actor , who never joined the other two . The state of the theatre was even then very rude ; freedoms of the ...
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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.