Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... king of Egypt , if Herodotus may be credited , built a library in his palace , over the door of which was the well known inscription- " Physic for the Soul . " Job wishes that his adversary had written C 2 THE LIBRARY . 17.
... king of Egypt , if Herodotus may be credited , built a library in his palace , over the door of which was the well known inscription- " Physic for the Soul . " Job wishes that his adversary had written C 2 THE LIBRARY . 17.
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... kings of Persia , as well as to one built by Nehemiah . Ptolemy Phila- delphus had a collection of 700,000 volumes de- stroyed by Cæsar's soldiers ; and the Alexandrian Library , burnt by the caliph Omar , contained 400,000 manuscripts ...
... kings of Persia , as well as to one built by Nehemiah . Ptolemy Phila- delphus had a collection of 700,000 volumes de- stroyed by Cæsar's soldiers ; and the Alexandrian Library , burnt by the caliph Omar , contained 400,000 manuscripts ...
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... kings of Scanderoon , A royal jester , Had in his train a gross buffoon , Who used to pester The court with tricks inopportune , Venting on the highest folks his Scurvy pleasantries and hoaxes . It needs some sense to play the fool ...
... kings of Scanderoon , A royal jester , Had in his train a gross buffoon , Who used to pester The court with tricks inopportune , Venting on the highest folks his Scurvy pleasantries and hoaxes . It needs some sense to play the fool ...
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... king , and " Never subject long'd to be a king As I do long and wish to find a subject : " but it is in vain ; every thing is stale , hackneyed , threadbare . There is nothing in heaven , or earth , or the waters under the earth , into ...
... king , and " Never subject long'd to be a king As I do long and wish to find a subject : " but it is in vain ; every thing is stale , hackneyed , threadbare . There is nothing in heaven , or earth , or the waters under the earth , into ...
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... king after the battle of Pavia , we have lost every thing but our honour ; and , while we retain that , our losses are but as a grain of sand . We may be depressed by fortune , but we can only be disgraced by ourselves . As to this ...
... king after the battle of Pavia , we have lost every thing but our honour ; and , while we retain that , our losses are but as a grain of sand . We may be depressed by fortune , but we can only be disgraced by ourselves . As to this ...
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Страница 73 - Ring out, ye crystal Spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Страница 295 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Страница 346 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts: A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Страница 103 - To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian polities which never can be drawn into use, will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably.
Страница 294 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Страница 154 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Страница 223 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
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Страница 306 - ... their ferrets behind them. ' One of their honours this night spoke, and in the name of God asked what it was, and why it disturbed them so? No answer was given to this; but the noise ceased for a while, when the spirit came again, and as they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse than itself.