Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... original , but of an unpleas- ant kind ; and is never entertaining , excepting when he makes himself ridiculous , which happens rather often . The Coulanges are mere votaries of fashion , and so of the rest . But the test of genius , as ...
... original , but of an unpleas- ant kind ; and is never entertaining , excepting when he makes himself ridiculous , which happens rather often . The Coulanges are mere votaries of fashion , and so of the rest . But the test of genius , as ...
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... original writer of merit . His works are most- ly of a gay and humorous cast ; but on this subject he is as stern as the Roman Cassius , and will bear no raillery . His wrath at the supposed act of larceny committed by Lesage upon the ...
... original writer of merit . His works are most- ly of a gay and humorous cast ; but on this subject he is as stern as the Roman Cassius , and will bear no raillery . His wrath at the supposed act of larceny committed by Lesage upon the ...
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... original author of Gil Blas . The compilers of a French biographical dictionary , published in 1771 , men- tion the work with the Bachelor of Salamanca , Guzman de Alfarache , and Le Diable Boiteux , among the author's imitations or ...
... original author of Gil Blas . The compilers of a French biographical dictionary , published in 1771 , men- tion the work with the Bachelor of Salamanca , Guzman de Alfarache , and Le Diable Boiteux , among the author's imitations or ...
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... Original Author of Gil Blas , or whether he borrowed it from the Spanish . In this work , which was printed in the following year , 1819 , the Count sustains the claims of his countryman ; and in the year 1820 , he published in Paris a ...
... Original Author of Gil Blas , or whether he borrowed it from the Spanish . In this work , which was printed in the following year , 1819 , the Count sustains the claims of his countryman ; and in the year 1820 , he published in Paris a ...
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... And in all such cases the presumption of a foreign original would be much height- ened , if a writer had brought out other works of a very similar kind , as avowed translations , or close imitations WHO WROTE GIL BLAS ? 35.
... And in all such cases the presumption of a foreign original would be much height- ened , if a writer had brought out other works of a very similar kind , as avowed translations , or close imitations WHO WROTE GIL BLAS ? 35.
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Сторінка 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Сторінка 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Сторінка 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Сторінка 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Сторінка 318 - 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.
Сторінка 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Сторінка 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Сторінка 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Сторінка 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...