Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1Routledge, 1865 |
Contents
| 191 | |
| 203 | |
| 239 | |
| 247 | |
| 261 | |
| 269 | |
| 275 | |
| 293 | |
| 73 | |
| 82 | |
| 88 | |
| 94 | |
| 100 | |
| 105 | |
| 111 | |
| 120 | |
| 126 | |
| 132 | |
| 139 | |
| 145 | |
| 152 | |
| 161 | |
| 173 | |
| 179 | |
| 305 | |
| 350 | |
| 352 | |
| 362 | |
| 373 | |
| 379 | |
| 386 | |
| 394 | |
| 400 | |
| 408 | |
| 417 | |
| 436 | |
| 449 | |
| 457 | |
| 468 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbé amusement ancient anecdote appears Ariosto Aristotle Bayle beautiful Ben Jonson bishop called Cardinal Cardinal Richelieu celebrated century character Charles Cicero collection composed composition criticism curious custom death discovered elegant English eyes father favour favourite folly France French frequently genius George Chalmers give gloves hand Henry VIII honour imagination imitate ingenious invention Jesuits John Birkenhead judicial combats king labour lady learned length letters literary literature lived lord Louis XIV majesty manner manuscript Marforio mind monarch monks never observed occasion original passion person Petrarch philosopher Plato Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry Pope Port-Royal portraits present preserved prince printed published queen Quintilian rabbins reader reign ridiculous Roman Saint Salmasius satire says Scarron scholars singular style Talmud taste tion translated treatise verses Virgil Virgin Voltaire volumes word writers written wrote
Popular passages
Page 85 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 34 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 289 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 431 - Je sais ce que je vaux, et crois ce qu'on m'en dit. Pour me faire admirer je ne fais point de ligue : J'ai peu de voix pour moi , mais je les ai sans brigue ; Et mon ambition, pour faire plus de bruit...
Page 8 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Page 285 - None from henceforth shall use to multiply gold or silver, or use the craft of multiplication; and if any the same do, he shall incur the pain of felony.
Page 35 - Sous ce tombeau git LE SAGE abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune; S'il ne fut pas ami de la fortune, II fut toujours ami de la vertu.
Page 440 - The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.
Page 125 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand : he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Page 66 - I'm resolv'd to search for thee: The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is,) Yet things well worth his toil he gains; And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.