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... piece of nature ; and I venture to pronounce that the man who is uninterested by it must have been born on Cau- casus and nursed by she - wolves . I come now to the cha- racters ; and here it is that the chief art of the poet is ...
... piece of nature ; and I venture to pronounce that the man who is uninterested by it must have been born on Cau- casus and nursed by she - wolves . I come now to the cha- racters ; and here it is that the chief art of the poet is ...
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... piece of paper , methought masterly done ; whereof inquiring the author , he betrayed by a smile it was himself , adding that he had done it , non tanquam pictor , sed tanquam mathematicus . This set me on fire ; at last he told me how ...
... piece of paper , methought masterly done ; whereof inquiring the author , he betrayed by a smile it was himself , adding that he had done it , non tanquam pictor , sed tanquam mathematicus . This set me on fire ; at last he told me how ...
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... piece of Heathen Superstition : the Ancients believed that Charon was not permitted to ferry over the Ghosts of unburied persons , but that they wandered up and down the banks of the river Styx for an hundred years , after which they ...
... piece of Heathen Superstition : the Ancients believed that Charon was not permitted to ferry over the Ghosts of unburied persons , but that they wandered up and down the banks of the river Styx for an hundred years , after which they ...
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... piece is extracted from a letter of the celebrated Politian to Petrus Medices : -I have not consulted the original , but taken the translation , as I found it in Creswell's Life of Politian . ] 66 6 Among so many discordant opinions of ...
... piece is extracted from a letter of the celebrated Politian to Petrus Medices : -I have not consulted the original , but taken the translation , as I found it in Creswell's Life of Politian . ] 66 6 Among so many discordant opinions of ...
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... piece , is the theatre crowded , while the pathetic tenderness of Otway , and the brilliant wit of Congreve , appears to have lost their attractions ? The Englishman does not prefer soup maigre to roast beef , nor are the public more ...
... piece , is the theatre crowded , while the pathetic tenderness of Otway , and the brilliant wit of Congreve , appears to have lost their attractions ? The Englishman does not prefer soup maigre to roast beef , nor are the public more ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Tatius admiration ÆSCHYLUS Anacreon ancient appears Aratus Aristophanes beauty bells better Billy Billy Taylor brother called captain Carthage Carthaginians Catullus character charm Charmides court Dæmon daughter death delight Devil dress Duke Earl eyes father Faustus favour fool fortune French gave gentleman Ghosts give hand head heart honour horses husband Iago Isalda Julius Cæsar Julius Scaliger Kean king lady learned Leucippe lived London look Lord lover married master means Menelaus ment Michael Cassio mind mistress Morholt morning mother murder nature never night observed passion person play poet poor Punic language queen Quintilian racter replied Resumed scene seems sent shew Sir Caynis Sir Tristan soul spirit street tells theatre thee thing thou thought tion told took tragedy Whig wife witch woman words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 111 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 43 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Seite 287 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 101 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 168 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 47 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Seite 58 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Seite 78 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of fargone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woebegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.
Seite 77 - ... lamented the stern policy that dictated his execution. But there was one heart, whose anguish it would be impossible to describe. In happier days and fairer fortunes, he had won the affections of a beautiful and interesting girl, the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister. She loved him with the disinterested fervour of a woman's first and early love.
Seite 286 - Zounds, sir, you are robb'd ; for shame, put on your gown ; Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul ; Even now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.