The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Band 1Knight, 1830 - 427 Seiten |
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... quarto volumes , commenced learning Latin only in his twenty - sixth year , and Greek not till some years afterwards . Vondel , like many of the other literary men of Holland , had begun life as a com- mercial man , and originally kept ...
... quarto volumes , commenced learning Latin only in his twenty - sixth year , and Greek not till some years afterwards . Vondel , like many of the other literary men of Holland , had begun life as a com- mercial man , and originally kept ...
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... quarto , in the year 1737. From this era , his fortunes and his celebrity went on steadily advancing . But the most remarkable and honourable part of his history is that which recounts his unwearied exertions as a writer on his ...
... quarto , in the year 1737. From this era , his fortunes and his celebrity went on steadily advancing . But the most remarkable and honourable part of his history is that which recounts his unwearied exertions as a writer on his ...
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... quarto : the first entitled ' A Treatise on the Nature and Laws of Chance ; the second , Essays on several curious and interesting Subjects in Speculative and Mixed Mathematics . ' In 1742 appeared his Doctrine of Annuities and ...
... quarto : the first entitled ' A Treatise on the Nature and Laws of Chance ; the second , Essays on several curious and interesting Subjects in Speculative and Mixed Mathematics . ' In 1742 appeared his Doctrine of Annuities and ...
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... quarto , entitled , ' A Short Essay towards an Ancient and Modern History of Booksellers . ' The history of the art of printing has , in our own country at least , been chiefly illustrated by the labours of writers to whom authorship ...
... quarto , entitled , ' A Short Essay towards an Ancient and Modern History of Booksellers . ' The history of the art of printing has , in our own country at least , been chiefly illustrated by the labours of writers to whom authorship ...
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... quarto volumes , and among them are enumerated imitations , or rather fac - similes , of all the more celebrated gems , ancient and modern , known to be in existence . The youthful CHATTERTON's taste for the study of , English ...
... quarto volumes , and among them are enumerated imitations , or rather fac - similes , of all the more celebrated gems , ancient and modern , known to be in existence . The youthful CHATTERTON's taste for the study of , English ...
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Seite 23 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Seite 305 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Seite 390 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Seite 227 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Seite 387 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Seite 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Seite 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Seite 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 228 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.