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Page 115
... person . On my late return to England , I found myself en- tangled , as it were , in a variety of important con- siderations . My friends , companions , relations , all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental ...
... person . On my late return to England , I found myself en- tangled , as it were , in a variety of important con- siderations . My friends , companions , relations , all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental ...
Page 117
... persons in India . I cannot con- ceive what is become of the book which I sent to you , but I will take the first opportunity of transmitting a fairer and more correct copy , toge- ther ther with my little Treatise on the Literature of ...
... persons in India . I cannot con- ceive what is become of the book which I sent to you , but I will take the first opportunity of transmitting a fairer and more correct copy , toge- ther ther with my little Treatise on the Literature of ...
Page 134
... persons whom he esteemed and admired . The letter which he addressed to M. du Perron was anonymous ; it was written with great force , and expresses his indig nation and contempt with a degree of asperity , which the judgement of ...
... persons whom he esteemed and admired . The letter which he addressed to M. du Perron was anonymous ; it was written with great force , and expresses his indig nation and contempt with a degree of asperity , which the judgement of ...
Page 147
... person , who has any taste for this branch of literature , when he has once taken it into his hand , to lay it aside again without giving it a thorough perusal . I find you have en- riched this work with a great variety of curious ...
... person , who has any taste for this branch of literature , when he has once taken it into his hand , to lay it aside again without giving it a thorough perusal . I find you have en- riched this work with a great variety of curious ...
Page 156
... person called upon me with a manuscript , which he had recei- ved at Venice from Mr. Montague , a man of family . I immediately perceived it to be a most beautiful and correct copy of Motanabbi , with a letter ad- dressed to myself in ...
... person called upon me with a manuscript , which he had recei- ved at Venice from Mr. Montague , a man of family . I immediately perceived it to be a most beautiful and correct copy of Motanabbi , with a letter ad- dressed to myself in ...
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Page 402 - ... of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 466 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 402 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 623 - Da be' rami scendea, (Dolce ne la memoria) Una pioggia di fior sovra '1 suo grembo; Et ella si sedea Umile in tanta gloria, Coverta già de l'amoroso nembo. Qual fior cadea sul lembo, Qual su le treccie bionde, Ch'oro forbito e perle Eran quel dì a vederle ; Qual si posava in terra, e qual su l'onde ; Qual con un vago errore Girando parea dir: 'Qui regna Amore.
Page 466 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either...
Page 452 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 84 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 116 - My friends, companions, relations, all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental literature for a time, and apply myself to oratory and the study of the law ; in other words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law ; and I need not add, how ambitious and laborious I am.
Page 231 - I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, " whence my mind turns with indignation at the " abominable traffic in the human species, from " which a part of our countrymen dare to derive " their most inauspicious wealth.
Page 490 - ... delight ; but I never could learn by what right, nor conceive with what feelings a naturalist can occasion the misery of an innocent bird, and leave its young, perhaps, to perish in a cold nest, because it has gay plumage, and has never been accurately delineated ; or deprive even a butterfly of its natural enjoyments, because it has the misfortune to be rare or beautiful...