Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksJ.K, Porter, 1832 - 296 páginas |
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... land - Sebastian Cabot - South America - Cabral - Brazil - Luther and Cal- vin - Settlement of America - The ... Lands - Reflections upon the Settle- ment of America - Conclusion . 203 • PREFACE . It is said that the Romans were viil.
... land - Sebastian Cabot - South America - Cabral - Brazil - Luther and Cal- vin - Settlement of America - The ... Lands - Reflections upon the Settle- ment of America - Conclusion . 203 • PREFACE . It is said that the Romans were viil.
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... Land . The continent was not behind Eng- land in travellers . The Mirabellia Mundi , were stu- died by all who could read , and communicated to those who could not ; and it may be said that the public mind was inflamed for oriental ...
... Land . The continent was not behind Eng- land in travellers . The Mirabellia Mundi , were stu- died by all who could read , and communicated to those who could not ; and it may be said that the public mind was inflamed for oriental ...
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... land in the year 1474. The first book printed in England was " The Game of Chess . " In four years afterwards a press was established at Oxford , and not long after , at St. Albans . Caxton printed many books ; some of his editions have ...
... land in the year 1474. The first book printed in England was " The Game of Chess . " In four years afterwards a press was established at Oxford , and not long after , at St. Albans . Caxton printed many books ; some of his editions have ...
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... land for the service of God alone , an avenging God , as he was taught to the people . The English Bible was pro- scribed , and it was treason and death to be found drink- ing at the well of eternal life . Those who were not prepared ...
... land for the service of God alone , an avenging God , as he was taught to the people . The English Bible was pro- scribed , and it was treason and death to be found drink- ing at the well of eternal life . Those who were not prepared ...
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... lands to be ploughed in , to increase the fertility of the soil ; it should be so with men in preparing the mind for its best efforts . Things entirely foreign to what is intended to be cultivated , should often fertilize us — for after ...
... lands to be ploughed in , to increase the fertility of the soil ; it should be so with men in preparing the mind for its best efforts . Things entirely foreign to what is intended to be cultivated , should often fertilize us — for after ...
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Página 252 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 69 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Página 61 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Página 169 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 64 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 156 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Página 52 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Página 253 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Página 69 - Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...
Página 101 - Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ; Too blest indeed, were such without alloy, But foster'd even by Freedom ills annoy : That independence Britons prize too high, Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie...