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... productions . These secret marks were termed παραστιχι δια , Οι παραστιχίδες , and are of the same sort with those which Cicero calls ἀκροστιχίδες , and tells us were used in a similar way by the writers of the Sibylline verses , as ...
... productions . These secret marks were termed παραστιχι δια , Οι παραστιχίδες , and are of the same sort with those which Cicero calls ἀκροστιχίδες , and tells us were used in a similar way by the writers of the Sibylline verses , as ...
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... productions of that author ; as we are informed by Athenæus in his fourteenth book . We are now come to the ... production of some comic writer ; and from the style we should guess it to be Menander's . The speaker is re- proving a ...
... productions of that author ; as we are informed by Athenæus in his fourteenth book . We are now come to the ... production of some comic writer ; and from the style we should guess it to be Menander's . The speaker is re- proving a ...
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... production . The whole CRANIAD , page 48. enquiry , therefore , is , how have the authors Poor paltry puling poets , -who , Lord knows , Should try to learn to write some decent prose . ་ ་ Ar a time when the Scripture history is ...
... production . The whole CRANIAD , page 48. enquiry , therefore , is , how have the authors Poor paltry puling poets , -who , Lord knows , Should try to learn to write some decent prose . ་ ་ Ar a time when the Scripture history is ...
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... production of two authors . After noticing the present distresses of the coun- try , they add , " Yet midst this tide of unpropitious time , Quacks advertise , and paltry poets rhyme ; Book makers ply their trade , -booksellers puff ...
... production of two authors . After noticing the present distresses of the coun- try , they add , " Yet midst this tide of unpropitious time , Quacks advertise , and paltry poets rhyme ; Book makers ply their trade , -booksellers puff ...
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... production . The authors have given us little prose of their own composition ; but this little is quite enough for its quality . Our readers are referred to the first note for a specimen of most elegant and interesting writing . The ...
... production . The authors have given us little prose of their own composition ; but this little is quite enough for its quality . Our readers are referred to the first note for a specimen of most elegant and interesting writing . The ...
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Página 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Página 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Página 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Página 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Página 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Página 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...