Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 2Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 553 oldal |
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260. oldal
... description , more strength to paffion , more grace , dignity , and perfection to character , than are usually to be met with in real life . The chief merit of this reprefentation of ideal excel- lence confifts in marking an object with ...
... description , more strength to paffion , more grace , dignity , and perfection to character , than are usually to be met with in real life . The chief merit of this reprefentation of ideal excel- lence confifts in marking an object with ...
261. oldal
... descriptions , and gives even to repetition the charms of love and delight . The memory grafps with a ftrong and lafting hold the works of fuch a genius . What is once read is rarely forgotten ; and what has been once enjoyed by the ...
... descriptions , and gives even to repetition the charms of love and delight . The memory grafps with a ftrong and lafting hold the works of fuch a genius . What is once read is rarely forgotten ; and what has been once enjoyed by the ...
266. oldal
... descriptions of the other . The glowing and gorgeous tints of the Florence school please the eye at the firft view ; but it requires time and comparison to relish the fimple majesty and fublime forms of the Roman artists . Of a pure and ...
... descriptions of the other . The glowing and gorgeous tints of the Florence school please the eye at the firft view ; but it requires time and comparison to relish the fimple majesty and fublime forms of the Roman artists . Of a pure and ...
271. oldal
... description of its application to the various fituations of life , and different feel- ings of the heart , more beautiful and juft , than the following verfes Queen of ev'ry moving measure , Sweetest source of pureft pleasure , Mufic ...
... description of its application to the various fituations of life , and different feel- ings of the heart , more beautiful and juft , than the following verfes Queen of ev'ry moving measure , Sweetest source of pureft pleasure , Mufic ...
389. oldal
... description of characters and manners . As he has the opportunity of afcertaining these points himself , his own experience is his best guide . Should he continue to affociate only with English- men , he will gradually fo narrow the ...
... description of characters and manners . As he has the opportunity of afcertaining these points himself , his own experience is his best guide . Should he continue to affociate only with English- men , he will gradually fo narrow the ...
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Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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