Elegant epistles; or, A copious collection of familiar and amusing letters. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers, ancient as well as modern; intended for the improvement of young persons ... being a proper supplement to Extracts in prose, & in poetry. Compiled by Vicesimus Knox
... no news from Spain : all that we know with certainty is , that young Pompey ... intro- duced perfons of the loweft rank and character into the Roman fenate ... Rom . 964 . This elegant and judicious piece is infcribed so Brutus , and was ...
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected [by Vicesimus Knox] for the Improvement of Young Persons, Etc. (Seventh and Last Edition.).
... cheat an- other , cheats himfelf moft . Giving is going a fishing . Too much profperity makes molt men fools . Dead men open the eyes of the living . No man's head aches while he comforts another . Bold and fhamele fs men are mafters of ...
Elegant Extracts: OR Useful and Entertaining PIECES of POETRY, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE
Thine too thefe golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ( Loofe his beard , and ...
Extracts, elegant, instructive and entertaining, in Poetry; from the most approved authors, etc. [Edited by Vicesimus Knox.]
... golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ( Loose his beard , and ...
Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry
... cheat an- other , cheats himself moft . Giving is going a fifhing . Too much profperity makes molt men fools . Dead men open the eyes of the living . No man's head aches while he in truth than he is in God's esteem . comforts another ...
Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry
... golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ( Loofe his beard , and ...
Elegant Extracts; or, Useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, selected by Vicesimus Knox , etc.
Thine too thefe golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ( Loofe his beard , and ...
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry
... cheat an- other , cheats himfeif moft . Giving is going a fishing . Too much profperity makes moit men fools . Dead inen open the eyes of the living . No man's head aches while he comforts another . Bold and fhameless men are masters of ...
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, & Entertaining, in Poetry ... Being Similar in Design to Extracts in Prose
... golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ( Loofe his beard , and ... 3 . ' Cold is Cadwallo's tongue , That hufh'd the ftormy main : The living ...
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose
... golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet flood ( Loofe his beard , and ...
Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition
... golden keys , immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror ... 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - ey'd fancy , hov'ring o'er ... fable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet ftood ; ( Loofe his beard , and ...
The New Lover's Instructor; Or, Whole Art of Courtship: Being the Lover's Complete Library and Guide: and Containing Full and Complete Instructions Concerning Love, Courtship, and Marriage. Whereby Every Part of Those Laudable and Important Concerns is Rendered Perfectly Easy to All Capacities; and Including, Among a Very Great Variety of Other Curious Articles, Equally Instructive and Entertaining, the Most Ingenious Love Letters, in a Great Variety of Forms, Written to and from Both Sexes, Relative to Courtship and Marriage, Calculated for the Use of Persons of All Ranks and Conditions of Life. The Politest Personal Conversations Between Lovers, &c. On the Subjects of Love and Marriage, Equally Interesting to Parents, Guardians, Children, and Wards. Cards of Compliment, Proper to be Used in Courtship by Lovers of Both Sexes, and Suited to All the Emergencies and Situations of Human Life. Love Epistles in Verse, Written in an Elegant Style;-and a Variety of Other Poems and Necessary Particulars, on the Important Subjects of Love and Courtship. The Whole Tending to Guide the Youthful Mind in the Most Engaging of It's Pursuits; to Direct Each Sex how to Make a Prudent Choice in Partner for Life; to Lead to Happiness Through the Paths of Virtue and Honour and to Remove Entirely Those Disagreeable Embarrassments, which Many Persons are Under in Making Proposals of Marriage. Published Under the Direction and Inspection of Charles Freeman, Esq. and Mrs. Charlotte Dorrington. Embellished with a Beautiful Frontispiece, Entirely New
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary:: comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and modern French, Teutonick, Dutch, Spanish, Italian ; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, each in their proper characters ; and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words, derived from any of the aforesaid languages, and terms of art, relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c ; together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes in law ; and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ; also the dialects of our different countries ; containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English dictionary before extant ; to which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration ; the whole work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant ; and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen, and foreigners, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they speak, read, or write
... L. DIVINE [ divinus , L. ] belonging to God , heavenly . F. A DIVINE , a Clergyman . To DIVINE [ divinare , L. ] to foretel , to guefs , to foothfay . DIVIN'ELY , in a heavenly Manner . A DIVIN'ER [ divinator , L. ] a Conjurer , a ...
The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: From the Best American and English Writers. With Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors
... Dryads ? 5. What do you know of Tempé's vale ? ERRORS . ' zult - in ' for ex - ult - ing ; per - sess - ed for pos - sess - ed ; ris- pon - sive for re - spon - sive ; hont - ed for haunt - ed . SPELL AND DEFINE . - 1 . passions ...
Elegant Extracts in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons
... cheat ano . ther , cheats himself most . Giving is going a fishing . Too much prosperity Dead men open the eyes of the living . No man's head aches while he comforts another . and shameless men are masters of half the world . Every one ...
Elegant Extracts in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons
... cheat ano- ther , cheats himself most . Giving is going a fishing . Too much prosperity makes most men fools . Dead men open the eyes of the living . No man's head aches while he comforts another . Bold and shameless men are masters of ...
The Poetical Epitome; Or, Elegant Extracts [in Poetry] Abridged from the Larger Volume [of V. Knox], Etc
... Ballad , intitled , The Fairies Farewell , or God - a - mercy Will , to be ... tabour , And nimbly went their toes . Witness those rings and roundelayes Of ... songs were Ave Maries , Were of the old prefession : But now , alas ! they all ...
Ten-place logarithms of the trigonometric functions from 0 ̊to 90 ̊for every thousandth of a degree
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical and Other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading, Thinking, Composing and in the Conduct of Life
... Lyric Poets.poa omi buguh Among the Latin poets of later ages , there have been many imitators of Horace . One of the moft diftinguithed is Cafimir , epistolary style , than perhaps any letters and in this which have appeared in the ...
The Spirit of Despotism. By Vicesimus Knox. Dedicated to Lord Castlereagh. Edited by the author of "The Political House that Jack built" W. Hone
... DEDICATED TO THE HOLY ALLIANCE . " Still monarchs dream Of universal empire growing up From universal ruin . Blast the design , Great God of Hosts , nor let thy creatures fall Unpitied victims at Ambition's shrine . " Bishop PORTEUS's ...
New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport
... reason why I should so far move the mirthful indignation of the ladies as to be teased and worried to death in mere sport , for no earthly reason but that I am what the world calls an old bachelor . The female part of my acquaintance ...
Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons
... Merricb. 45 46 The Benedicite, paraphrased - Ibid. 45 47 A Funeral Hymn - - - Mallet. 47 48 Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased Dryden. 47 49 A Night Piece - Miss Carter. 47 50 Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm - Carter. 4& 51 The ...
The Modern Universal Story-Teller; Or, a New Picture of Human Life ... Forming a Complete Collection of Genuine, Instructive, and Entertaining Stories, Tales, Narrations ... Poems, &c. &c. Among Which, Besides Those Articles Carefully Selected from the Most Approved English Authors ... are Interspersed Many Original Pieces in Prose
... love in la- tin ? ” - Monf . de la Fayette , being wholly unable to reift this amazing force of argument , immediately paffed fentence , and it was concluded that the young Marquis fhould not lofe his time in getting acquainted with ...
Principles of elocution, containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises. ... Also copious extracts in prose and poetry; calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil, in reading and recitation
... realms they came , Brethren in arms , but rivals in renown- For yon fair ... Laws . And O ! loved warriors of the Minstrel's land ! Yonder your bonnets nod ... Hero is thine own . ་་་ Walter Scott . 22. - From the Bride of Abydos . KNOW ...
A Copious Dictionary in Three Parts: I. The English Before the Latin, Enriched with about Ten Thousand Words More Then Any Former Dictionary Contains. II. The Latin Before the English, with Correct and Plentiful Etymological Derivations, ... III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, and Other Things Necessary to the Understanding of Historians and Poets. To which are Adjoined a Table of Authors Names at Large, which in this Book are Made Use Of, Or Mentioned; and Also Some Lesser Tractates. The Whole Being a Comprisal of Thomasius and Rider's Foundations, Holland's and Holyoak's Superstructure and Improvements: Together with Amendments and Enlargements ... Promoted and Carried on by a Diligent Search Into, and Perusal of Several Other Dictionaries, and Many Authors Ancient and Modern: Rendring this Work the Most Complete and Useful of Any in this Kind Yet Extant; ...
... oblivion . Obli- viale poculum , A cup or potion of forget- fulnes . Prud ... id eft , ope- rit ; unde & Nuptiæ di & a ,, à capitis opertione , σκεπάζω ... item Vehementer Tóvas , asdalas , Obloco , as ; Suet . capria . To fet out ...
This website uses cookies and collects data for optimal performance. Your continued use signifies agreement to our Privacy Policy.
![Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected [by Vicesimus Knox] for the Improvement of Young Persons, Etc. (Seventh and Last Edition.).](/images/T1HBbmy5ZOsC.jfif)
![Extracts, elegant, instructive and entertaining, in Poetry; from the most approved authors, etc. [Edited by Vicesimus Knox.]](/images/5XOBPJNfvcEC.jfif)
![The Poetical Epitome; Or, Elegant Extracts [in Poetry] Abridged from the Larger Volume [of V. Knox], Etc](/images/bKlXAAAAcAAJ.jfif)
