The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ...C. Knight, 1834 |
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... distinguished writer in the Edinburgh Review , in commenting upon a brilliant passage , which we shall presently have occasion to quote . " As far as relates to the character of Lord Erskine's eloquence , we would point out as the most ...
... distinguished writer in the Edinburgh Review , in commenting upon a brilliant passage , which we shall presently have occasion to quote . " As far as relates to the character of Lord Erskine's eloquence , we would point out as the most ...
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... distinguished philosopher just mentioned received the news of Dollond's invention , appears singular , considering the side which each had taken in the previous discussion . Euler , who had asserted the possibility of an achromatic lens ...
... distinguished philosopher just mentioned received the news of Dollond's invention , appears singular , considering the side which each had taken in the previous discussion . Euler , who had asserted the possibility of an achromatic lens ...
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... distinguished merit , it has sometimes an unhappy influence on his profession . Men look for prosperity and splendour as the accompaniments of such merit ; and missing it , they turn aside from the worthiest models , to follow those who ...
... distinguished merit , it has sometimes an unhappy influence on his profession . Men look for prosperity and splendour as the accompaniments of such merit ; and missing it , they turn aside from the worthiest models , to follow those who ...
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... distinguished no less as a jurist than as a poet , Petrarch learned more poetry than law . On his father's death , which occurred when he was about twenty years old , he returned to Avignon . His mother died soon after ; and the ...
... distinguished no less as a jurist than as a poet , Petrarch learned more poetry than law . On his father's death , which occurred when he was about twenty years old , he returned to Avignon . His mother died soon after ; and the ...
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... distinguished for beauty , of which he was him- self not insensible ; for he left , in his Letter to Posterity , ' a descrip- tion of his own person , which we quote from Ugo Foscolo's translation . " Without being uncommonly handsome ...
... distinguished for beauty , of which he was him- self not insensible ; for he left , in his Letter to Posterity , ' a descrip- tion of his own person , which we quote from Ugo Foscolo's translation . " Without being uncommonly handsome ...
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Page 197 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Page 161 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Page 13 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Page 62 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.
Page 196 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before ! So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she, Adorned with Beauty's grace and Virtue's store...
Page 177 - Chaucer) were of the Inner Temple ; for not many years since Master Buckley did see a record in the same house where Geoffry Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street.
Page 158 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Page 42 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 157 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Page 187 - ... ever come, when you shall wish to enjoy the tranquillity of private life, may you have a son endowed with such qualities, that you can resign your sceptre to him, with as much satisfaction as I give up mine to you.