A Descriptive Catalogue of Books, in the Library of John Holmes, F.S.A.Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchett, 1834 |
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Pàgina 80 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.
Pàgina 66 - England* began first that language ; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Pàgina 97 - A | Chorographicall | Description Of All | the Tracts, Rivers, | Mountains, Forests, | and other Parts of this Renowned | Isle of Great Britain, | With intermixture of the most Remarkeable | Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, | and Commodities, of the same.
Pàgina 55 - Farewell great Painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of Art, Whose pictured Morals charm the Mind, And through the Eye correct the Heart. If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a Tear ; If neither move thee, turn away, For HOGARTH'S honour'd dust lies here.
Pàgina 81 - The * Costume of the original Inhabitants of the British Islands, ' from the earliest periods to the sixth century. To which is ' added — that of the Gothic Nations on the Western Coasts ' of the Haltick, the Ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons, and
Pàgina 58 - With this ring I thee wed : This gold and silver I thee give : with my body I thee worship : and with all my worldly goods I thee endow : In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Pàgina 110 - Tt is by far the greatest glory of Sir Walter Scott, that he shone equally as a good and virtuous man, as he did in his capacity of the first fictitious writer of the age. His behaviour through life was marked by undeviating integrity and parity, insomuch that no scandalous •whisper was ever yet circulated against him.
Pàgina 90 - The Palace of pleasure, beautified, adorned, and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent novels, very requisite for delight and profit. Chosen and selected out of divers good and commendable authors, by William Painter.
Pàgina 102 - The Pursuits of Literature, a Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with Notes. To which are added, an Appendix, the Citations translated, and a complete Index. Sixteenth edition.