Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... probably without putting them to paper , certain songs and ballads , which they sung at the tables of the warriors and princes of their time . Some centuries afterwards , Pisistratus made them up into a book , which became the bible of ...
... probably without putting them to paper , certain songs and ballads , which they sung at the tables of the warriors and princes of their time . Some centuries afterwards , Pisistratus made them up into a book , which became the bible of ...
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... probably owing , in part , to a conscious- ness of the great superiority in this respect of the character of Madame de Sévigné to her own . Madame de Sévigné not only kept herself aloof from the almost universal licentiousness of her ...
... probably owing , in part , to a conscious- ness of the great superiority in this respect of the character of Madame de Sévigné to her own . Madame de Sévigné not only kept herself aloof from the almost universal licentiousness of her ...
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... probably not much gratified by seeing the longitude of her mouth so nicely calculated , and sent Bussy to the Bastile . After doing penance there for a few months , he was permitted to retire to his estates , where he remained an exile ...
... probably not much gratified by seeing the longitude of her mouth so nicely calculated , and sent Bussy to the Bastile . After doing penance there for a few months , he was permitted to retire to his estates , where he remained an exile ...
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... probably owing to the circumstance , that she did not hear the oration of Fléchier , having been at the time ill in the country . In general , as we said before , she speaks fre- quently of the pulpit orators , particularly Bourdaloue ...
... probably owing to the circumstance , that she did not hear the oration of Fléchier , having been at the time ill in the country . In general , as we said before , she speaks fre- quently of the pulpit orators , particularly Bourdaloue ...
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... probably from an apprehension that all letters passing through the post - office were subject to inspection ; but the language , though commonly laudatory , does not exceed the bounds of moderation and justice , for Louis XIV . did , in ...
... probably from an apprehension that all letters passing through the post - office were subject to inspection ; but the language , though commonly laudatory , does not exceed the bounds of moderation and justice , for Louis XIV . did , in ...
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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...