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... whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the British language , and , in some cases , no other , is spoken over a considerable extent of these countries - in Wales , in the Highlands of Scotland , in Ireland , and in the Isle ...
... whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the British language , and , in some cases , no other , is spoken over a considerable extent of these countries - in Wales , in the Highlands of Scotland , in Ireland , and in the Isle ...
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... whole or in part , their original Celtic form : we may instance the terminating syllable don with which many of these names conclude , and which is the Celtic dun , signifying a fortified rock . The Irish Kil , which begins so many ...
... whole or in part , their original Celtic form : we may instance the terminating syllable don with which many of these names conclude , and which is the Celtic dun , signifying a fortified rock . The Irish Kil , which begins so many ...
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... whole of this large class of words is in English absolutely much more correct - that is , much closer to the Latin - than in the French , the Italian , or even than in the Spanish itself ; so much so indeed as to induce a linguistic ...
... whole of this large class of words is in English absolutely much more correct - that is , much closer to the Latin - than in the French , the Italian , or even than in the Spanish itself ; so much so indeed as to induce a linguistic ...
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... whole splendid reign of Elizabeth . As specimens of the most familiar and idiomatic English- the English of the lower orders — we may cite the wild and witty pasquinades of Skelton , who attacked Wolsey with such persevering temerity ...
... whole splendid reign of Elizabeth . As specimens of the most familiar and idiomatic English- the English of the lower orders — we may cite the wild and witty pasquinades of Skelton , who attacked Wolsey with such persevering temerity ...
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... whole of many- nay , a great part of all - his works bears unequivocal traces of the prevailing taste for imitation . How much he has improved upon his models , what new lights he has placed them in , with what skill he has infused ...
... whole of many- nay , a great part of all - his works bears unequivocal traces of the prevailing taste for imitation . How much he has improved upon his models , what new lights he has placed them in , with what skill he has infused ...
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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.