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... give a complete Catalogue of Stars . : This method appears to unite the advantages of con- ciseness and completeness ; for , should the reader push his studies no farther , he may at least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and ...
... give a complete Catalogue of Stars . : This method appears to unite the advantages of con- ciseness and completeness ; for , should the reader push his studies no farther , he may at least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and ...
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... give an account of the English annals from A.D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables , the accuracy and importance of the work , as a his- torical document , becomes ...
... give an account of the English annals from A.D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables , the accuracy and importance of the work , as a his- torical document , becomes ...
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Thomas Budd Shaw. romance of Brut ; and nothing will give a more distinct idea of the difficulty encountered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions ...
Thomas Budd Shaw. romance of Brut ; and nothing will give a more distinct idea of the difficulty encountered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions ...
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... give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls " the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of the barbarous ...
... give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls " the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of the barbarous ...
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... give ( as a multitude of poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his ' Faery Queen , ' in harmony with the romantic chivalry of its subject , set the example - unhappily followed by many ...
... give ( as a multitude of poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his ' Faery Queen , ' in harmony with the romantic chivalry of its subject , set the example - unhappily followed by many ...
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Página 348 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 212 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 336 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 266 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Página 181 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Página 136 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Página 243 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 122 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 242 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Página 110 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.