A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Volume 1Trübner, 1859 - 3140 páginas |
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... excellent Bishop , and do not know the difference between " rare Ben Jonson " and the dic- tator at Mrs. Thrale's ! can by no means be dispensed with by the biblio-. LADIES are generally better informed than the other sex in these ...
... excellent Bishop , and do not know the difference between " rare Ben Jonson " and the dic- tator at Mrs. Thrale's ! can by no means be dispensed with by the biblio-. LADIES are generally better informed than the other sex in these ...
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... excellent paper on the proper " reading of the Common Prayer , " Spectator , No. 147. See CULB , RICHARD . The Philosophy of Anc . Greece investigated , Edin . Anderson , Henry . Poemata , Amst . , 1637 . Anderson , Henry . Serm . on Ps ...
... excellent paper on the proper " reading of the Common Prayer , " Spectator , No. 147. See CULB , RICHARD . The Philosophy of Anc . Greece investigated , Edin . Anderson , Henry . Poemata , Amst . , 1637 . Anderson , Henry . Serm . on Ps ...
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... excellent plan . . . Mr. Andrews's style is , in general , well adapted to his subject ; perspicuous , though con- cise , and at once elegant and nervous ... When his plan is com- pleted , he will have supplied a desideratum in English ...
... excellent plan . . . Mr. Andrews's style is , in general , well adapted to his subject ; perspicuous , though con- cise , and at once elegant and nervous ... When his plan is com- pleted , he will have supplied a desideratum in English ...
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... excellent and highly - esteemed work . " - LOWNDES . Arbuckle , Jas . , 1700-1734 . 1. Hibernicus's Letters , pub . in the Dublin Journal , Lon . , 1729 , 2 vols . 2. Poems . Arbuthnot , Rev. Alexander , 1538-1582 , was Prin- cipal of ...
... excellent and highly - esteemed work . " - LOWNDES . Arbuckle , Jas . , 1700-1734 . 1. Hibernicus's Letters , pub . in the Dublin Journal , Lon . , 1729 , 2 vols . 2. Poems . Arbuthnot , Rev. Alexander , 1538-1582 , was Prin- cipal of ...
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... Excellent Catholic sermons . " - LowNDES . Arganston , J. The Mutations of the Seas , Lon . , 1683 . Argus , Arabella . The Juvenile Spectator , Lon . , 1812 , & c . Argyle . See CAMPBELL , GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS . Arkwright , T. Essay ...
... Excellent Catholic sermons . " - LowNDES . Arganston , J. The Mutations of the Seas , Lon . , 1683 . Argus , Arabella . The Juvenile Spectator , Lon . , 1812 , & c . Argyle . See CAMPBELL , GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS . Arkwright , T. Essay ...
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Página 174 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Página 11 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 175 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 243 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Página 70 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Página 11 - ... ..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most '
Página 88 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.
Página 11 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 174 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 11 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.