The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2; Parts 1945-1948Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 419
... letters . The famous edition of Dante's poem of Hell , printed at Florence by Magna , A. D. 1481 , and to which Botticelli un- dertook to write notes , was intended to have been ornamented with prints , one for each canto ; a few of ...
... letters . The famous edition of Dante's poem of Hell , printed at Florence by Magna , A. D. 1481 , and to which Botticelli un- dertook to write notes , was intended to have been ornamented with prints , one for each canto ; a few of ...
Page 425
... letter to the National Assembly from Luxem- bourg , menacing them with summary vengeance should any attempt be made on the life of the king . This threat however , only served to acce- lerate the event , and Bouillé himself was sen ...
... letter to the National Assembly from Luxem- bourg , menacing them with summary vengeance should any attempt be made on the life of the king . This threat however , only served to acce- lerate the event , and Bouillé himself was sen ...
Page 427
... Letters upon the An- cient Parliaments of France ; a History of France to the Reign of Charles VIII .; the State of France , with Historical Memoirs concerning the Ancient Government of that Monarchy to the time of Hugh Capet ; written ...
... Letters upon the An- cient Parliaments of France ; a History of France to the Reign of Charles VIII .; the State of France , with Historical Memoirs concerning the Ancient Government of that Monarchy to the time of Hugh Capet ; written ...
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... letter from the secretary of state , acquainting him that the king had nominated him archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland . This honor he would gladly have declined ; and desired the secretary to use his good offices with his ...
... letter from the secretary of state , acquainting him that the king had nominated him archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland . This honor he would gladly have declined ; and desired the secretary to use his good offices with his ...
Page 438
... letters in Theseus's name , and expressing each of them by some apposite resem- blance , compares the third to the Scythian bow ; meaning not the more modern character E , but the ancient C , which is semicircular , and has the third ...
... letters in Theseus's name , and expressing each of them by some apposite resem- blance , compares the third to the Scythian bow ; meaning not the more modern character E , but the ancient C , which is semicircular , and has the third ...
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Page 719 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 451 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 690 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
Page 690 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 513 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 442 - s cheek (but none knows how) ; With these the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin, — All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes ; She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?
Page 546 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 631 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 614 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
Page 740 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.