The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Volume 16Avil Printing Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 7
... born at Winchester , November 27 , 1710 ; died at Fulham , near London , November 3 , 1787 . In 1737 he was graduated at New College , Oxford , where in 1741 he became Professor of Poetry , in which capacity he delivered the ...
... born at Winchester , November 27 , 1710 ; died at Fulham , near London , November 3 , 1787 . In 1737 he was graduated at New College , Oxford , where in 1741 he became Professor of Poetry , in which capacity he delivered the ...
Pagina 12
... born at London , April 30 , 1834. His father , an eminent astronomer and mathematician , contributed largely to the scientific literature of his day . He was educated at Eton , and when but fourteen entered his father's banking- house ...
... born at London , April 30 , 1834. His father , an eminent astronomer and mathematician , contributed largely to the scientific literature of his day . He was educated at Eton , and when but fourteen entered his father's banking- house ...
Pagina 16
... De Foe's Robinson Crusoe , Molière's plays , Smiles's Self - Help , Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii , Dickens's and Scott's novels . - From Pleasures of Life . LUCAN , MARCUS Annĉus , a Roman poet , born. 16 JOHN LUBBOCK.
... De Foe's Robinson Crusoe , Molière's plays , Smiles's Self - Help , Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii , Dickens's and Scott's novels . - From Pleasures of Life . LUCAN , MARCUS Annĉus , a Roman poet , born. 16 JOHN LUBBOCK.
Pagina 17
... born at Corduba , the modern Cordova , in Spain , about A.D. 39 ; died at Rome in 65. His father , a brother of the philosopher Seneca , took him at an early age to Rome , where he was carefully educated . By his early poems he gained ...
... born at Corduba , the modern Cordova , in Spain , about A.D. 39 ; died at Rome in 65. His father , a brother of the philosopher Seneca , took him at an early age to Rome , where he was carefully educated . By his early poems he gained ...
Pagina 20
... born at Samosata on the Euphrates about A.D. 120 ; died in Egypt about 200. He was apprenticed to a sculptor , but at an early age devoted him- self to the study of rhetoric , supporting himself at Antioch by writing speeches to be ...
... born at Samosata on the Euphrates about A.D. 120 ; died in Egypt about 200. He was apprenticed to a sculptor , but at an early age devoted him- self to the study of rhetoric , supporting himself at Antioch by writing speeches to be ...
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Pagina 466 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Pagina 55 - What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power? Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
Pagina 167 - Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience...
Pagina 244 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Pagina 460 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Pagina 244 - THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE COME live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields.
Pagina 100 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Pagina 182 - I've heard bells tolling Old Adrian's Mole in, Their thunder rolling From the Vatican, And cymbals glorious Swinging uproarious In the gorgeous turrets Of Notre Dame ; But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o'er the Tiber, Pealing solemnly. O, the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Pagina 99 - Hurrah! The foes are moving. Hark to the mingled din, Of fife, and steed, and trump, and drum, and roaring culverin.
Pagina 187 - Peile was a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India, and represented the Indian Secretary on the Royal Commission (Welby's) on Indian expenditure.