Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3F. Warne, 1881 - Authors |
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... JAMES THE FIRST AS A FATHER AND A HUSBAND THE MAN OF ONE BOOK 333 337 A BIBLIOGNOSTE SECRET HISTORY OF AN ELECTIVE MONARCHY BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS , AND RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTRY 340 346 . 363 ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS . TRUE SOURCES OF ...
... JAMES THE FIRST AS A FATHER AND A HUSBAND THE MAN OF ONE BOOK 333 337 A BIBLIOGNOSTE SECRET HISTORY OF AN ELECTIVE MONARCHY BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS , AND RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTRY 340 346 . 363 ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS . TRUE SOURCES OF ...
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... James and Charles the Spanish framed the style of courtesy ; in Charles the Second the nation and the language were equally Frenchified . Yet such are the sources from whence we have often derived some of the wealth of our language ...
... James and Charles the Spanish framed the style of courtesy ; in Charles the Second the nation and the language were equally Frenchified . Yet such are the sources from whence we have often derived some of the wealth of our language ...
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... James , and Charles , were great collectors of them ; would appeal to them in their conversations , and enforce them in their learned or their statesmanlike correspondence . Few , perhaps , even now , suspect that these neglected ...
... James , and Charles , were great collectors of them ; would appeal to them in their conversations , and enforce them in their learned or their statesmanlike correspondence . Few , perhaps , even now , suspect that these neglected ...
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... , revived by the French surgeon Guillotine . This proverb may be applied to one who falls a victim to his own ingenuity ; the artificer of his own destruction ! The inventor was James , 58 The Philosophy of Proverbs .
... , revived by the French surgeon Guillotine . This proverb may be applied to one who falls a victim to his own ingenuity ; the artificer of his own destruction ! The inventor was James , 58 The Philosophy of Proverbs .
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... James the First , when England and Scotland became Great Britain , this city , from its centrical situation , was considered as the best adapted for the seat of government , or for some other cause which I have not dis- covered , this ...
... James the First , when England and Scotland became Great Britain , this city , from its centrical situation , was considered as the best adapted for the seat of government , or for some other cause which I have not dis- covered , this ...
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Page 99 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 196 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Page 127 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 205 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Page 126 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 420 - This delight and pride of the modern Gauls in the great and good deeds of their ancestors, preserved in domestic archives, will be ascribed to their folly or their vanity ; yet in that folly there may be so much wisdom, and in that vanity there may be so much greatness, that the one will amply redeem the other. This custom has been rarely adopted among ourselves ; we have, however, a few separate histories of some ancient families, as those of Mordaunt, and of Warren. One of the most remarkable is...
Page 497 - Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I ; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up. Make the most of life you may ; Life is short, and wears away. " Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one.
Page 4 - What child is there that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes...
Page 124 - To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 100 - ... wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.