Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of Dante: With His Literary Journal and Letters, Volumes 1-2E. Moxon, 1847 |
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... answer to the foregoing sonnet , subjoined to the following letter , appeared in the Magazine for October of the same year . TO MISS SEWARD . Oct. 21 , 1788 . I AM very much gratified by the idea of the son- net in the Magazine being Mr ...
... answer to the foregoing sonnet , subjoined to the following letter , appeared in the Magazine for October of the same year . TO MISS SEWARD . Oct. 21 , 1788 . I AM very much gratified by the idea of the son- net in the Magazine being Mr ...
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... ANSWER TO J. W. Whoe'er thou be that wouldst , with friendly art , Quench in our bosoms their poetic fire , Know we nor to the public praise aspire , Nor dread Detraction's venom - spitting dart ; Bless'd if our verse some unfeign'd joy ...
... ANSWER TO J. W. Whoe'er thou be that wouldst , with friendly art , Quench in our bosoms their poetic fire , Know we nor to the public praise aspire , Nor dread Detraction's venom - spitting dart ; Bless'd if our verse some unfeign'd joy ...
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... answers my expectations , and you still continue to prefer Pope , you must be content to prefer him to Homer . In Mr. Weston's late publication , I like that trans- lation in Dryden's style much better than the other . Not only because ...
... answers my expectations , and you still continue to prefer Pope , you must be content to prefer him to Homer . In Mr. Weston's late publication , I like that trans- lation in Dryden's style much better than the other . Not only because ...
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... answer for , without being obliged to groan under any adventitious load . I meant to say , that in entering upon the didactic line I had mistaken the natural bent of my talents , which ought to have enlisted under the banners of Spenser ...
... answer for , without being obliged to groan under any adventitious load . I meant to say , that in entering upon the didactic line I had mistaken the natural bent of my talents , which ought to have enlisted under the banners of Spenser ...
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... answer the ideas I had formed of his talents ; I should be glad to part with my pre- sent opinion of them by reading the romance , on perusal of which your elegant verses are addressed to him . Pray believe me the most affectionate and ...
... answer the ideas I had formed of his talents ; I should be glad to part with my pre- sent opinion of them by reading the romance , on perusal of which your elegant verses are addressed to him . Pray believe me the most affectionate and ...
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Page 247 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 243 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 323 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
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Page 243 - Against thy only Son? What fury O Son, Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart Against thy Fathers head?
Page 202 - Empire in the year 1795 : and Herbert Marsh's History of the Politics of Great Britain and France, from the Conference at Pilnitz to the Declaration of War against Great Britain. June 29. Read the twelfth book of the Odyssey, with Price. 30. Began Marino's Adone, and read canto i. Began Burnet's History of his own Times. July 1. Continued Burnet. 2. Continued Burnet; and read canto iii. of the Adone. 3. Read canto iv. of the Adone.
Page 322 - Necesse est ut eam, tion ut vivam : but it may be truly affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or other discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the good which is communicative...