Knight's Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2Charles Knight, 1846 |
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Pagina 17
... common books , some from books not easily acces- sible ; but we shall endeavour to select nothing that does not involve some interest beyond the fact of its referring to what is old and obsolete . We are no lovers of antique things ...
... common books , some from books not easily acces- sible ; but we shall endeavour to select nothing that does not involve some interest beyond the fact of its referring to what is old and obsolete . We are no lovers of antique things ...
Pagina 18
... common till the beginning of the last century ; but , however uniform and undistinguished the ancient seats were , and however peculiarly improper subjects to ex- cite any of the ungentle passions , they were very early the causes of ...
... common till the beginning of the last century ; but , however uniform and undistinguished the ancient seats were , and however peculiarly improper subjects to ex- cite any of the ungentle passions , they were very early the causes of ...
Pagina 25
... common life - not in their state - acting dresses — often in some absurd situation in which they never could be found — but for the most part with a truth , on the ludicrous side , which is not seldom wanting in those who undertake to ...
... common life - not in their state - acting dresses — often in some absurd situation in which they never could be found — but for the most part with a truth , on the ludicrous side , which is not seldom wanting in those who undertake to ...
Pagina 26
... Common Pleas . Samuel Ireland says , " It was drawn in black - lead ; and marked in , afterwards , at his own house , in pen and ink . When he had made an engraving from the drawing , he threw it into the fire ; and it would have been ...
... Common Pleas . Samuel Ireland says , " It was drawn in black - lead ; and marked in , afterwards , at his own house , in pen and ink . When he had made an engraving from the drawing , he threw it into the fire ; and it would have been ...
Pagina 27
... common , or clerkly terms ; " and thus between plain , rude , and curious , he stood abashed . " However , he adds : — " Forasmuch as this present book is not for a rude uplandish man to labour therein , nor read it , but only for a ...
... common , or clerkly terms ; " and thus between plain , rude , and curious , he stood abashed . " However , he adds : — " Forasmuch as this present book is not for a rude uplandish man to labour therein , nor read it , but only for a ...
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Pagina 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Pagina 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Pagina 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Pagina 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Pagina 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Pagina 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Pagina 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Pagina 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Pagina 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!