Curiosities of LiteratureLilly, Wait, Coleman, and Holden, 1834 - English literature |
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Page 191 - a letter on this occasion, he writes, ' My ambition now I shall only put upon MY PEN, whereby I shall be able to maintain memory and merit, of THE TIMES SUCCEEDING.' And many years after when he had finally quitted public life, he told the king, ' I would live to study, and not study to
Page 391 - Take not this as a threatening, for I scorn to threaten any but my equals ; but as an admonition from him, that, both out of nature and duty, hath most care of your preservations and prosperities :
Page 225 - the poet, amidst his gigantic conception of a scene, resolved to leave it out ; ' So vast a throng the stage can ne'er contain — Then build a new, or act it in a plain!' exclaimed 'La Mancha's knight,' kindling at a scene so novel and so vast ! Such an electioneering negotiation, the only one I am acquainted with, is opened in the 'Discours
Page 197 - read in schools, But to be freighted in the Ship of Fools. Such then was the fate of Lord BACON ; a history not written by his biographers, but which may serve as a comment on that obscure passage dropped from the pen of his chaplain, and already quoted, that he was more valued abroad than at home.
Page 357 - informing him, asked again how he thought to be saved ? He answered he could not tell. Yet thought that was a harder question than the other. I told him that the way to salvation was by Jesus Christ, God-man, who as he was man shed his blood for us on the cross,
Page 5 - primiero Che a te fede giurò, la fede osservi ? Or va ; repudia il valor prisco, e sposa L' ozio, e fra il sangue, i gemiti, e le strida Nel periglio maggior dormi e riposa ! Dormi, Adultera vii ! fin che omicida Spada ultrice ti svegli, e sonnacchiosa, E nuda in braccio al tuo fedel t
Page 283 - a final extract, take this full picture of royal misery — ' I must see company on my set days ; I must play twice a week ; nay, I must laugh and talk, though never so much against my will : I believe I dissemble very ill to those who know me ; at least, it is a great constraint to myself,
Page 195 - this censure, that a fool could not have written such a work, and a wise man would not.' A month or two afterwards we find that ' the king cannot forbear sometimes in reading the lord chancellor's last book to say, that it is like the peace of God, that surpasseth all understanding.
Page 126 - le grand devient petit, le riche devient pauvre, le monarque devient sujet — nous approchons l'état de crise et du siècle des révolutions. Que fera donc dans la bassesse ce satrape que vous n'aurez élevé que pour
Page 5 - dunque 1' onor, cosi conservi Gli avanzi tu del glorioso Impero ? Cosi al valor, cosi al valor primiero Che a te fede giurò, la fede osservi ? Or va ; repudia il valor prisco, e sposa L' ozio, e fra il sangue, i gemiti, e le strida Nel periglio maggior dormi e riposa ! Dormi, Adultera vii ! fin che omicida Spada