The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations: 1. Of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. 2. On the Introduction of Learning Into England. 3. On the Gesta Romanorum, Volume 3 |
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... readers laugh : they were now convinced of their mistake , and soon found that the German pleasantry prepared the way for a revolution , which proved of the most serious consequences to Italy . Another great temporary check given to the ...
... readers laugh : they were now convinced of their mistake , and soon found that the German pleasantry prepared the way for a revolution , which proved of the most serious consequences to Italy . Another great temporary check given to the ...
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... reader in philosophy , to- gether with Aristotle . * Ibid . cap . xv . It may be also ob- served here , that the philosophy reader is not only ordered to explain Aristotle , but Plato . Ibid . cap . xv . It appears by im- plication in ...
... reader in philosophy , to- gether with Aristotle . * Ibid . cap . xv . It may be also ob- served here , that the philosophy reader is not only ordered to explain Aristotle , but Plato . Ibid . cap . xv . It appears by im- plication in ...
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... reader of the New Testament thought he had a full com- prehension of the most mysterious metaphysical doctrines in the chri- stian faith ; and scorned to acquiesce in the sober and rational expo- sitions of such difficult subjects ...
... reader of the New Testament thought he had a full com- prehension of the most mysterious metaphysical doctrines in the chri- stian faith ; and scorned to acquiesce in the sober and rational expo- sitions of such difficult subjects ...
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... reader and a writer of verses . The language and the manners of Italy were esteemed and studied . The sonnets of Petrarch were the great models of composition . They en- tered into the genius of the fashionable manners : and in a court ...
... reader and a writer of verses . The language and the manners of Italy were esteemed and studied . The sonnets of Petrarch were the great models of composition . They en- tered into the genius of the fashionable manners : and in a court ...
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... readers . It was vainly imagined , that all the world would eagerly wish to purchase the works of a neglected antient English poet , whom Pope had called the GRAN- VILLE of a former age . So rapid are the revolutions of our language ...
... readers . It was vainly imagined , that all the world would eagerly wish to purchase the works of a neglected antient English poet , whom Pope had called the GRAN- VILLE of a former age . So rapid are the revolutions of our language ...
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Page 193 - And first within the porch and jaws of Hell Sat deep Remorse of Conscience, all besprent With tears: and to herself oft would she tell Her wretchedness, and cursing never stent...
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Page 180 - I love no roast but a nut-brown toast, And a crab laid in the fire ; A little bread shall do me stead; Much bread I not desire. No frost nor snow, no wind, I trow, Can hurt me if I wold ; I am so wrapped and thoroughly lapped Of jolly good ale and old.
Page 43 - Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute, this is the last 'Labour, that thou and I shall waste ; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute, be still, for I have done.