It became necessary, therefore, to form new ones, which was accordingly executed by the orders of the Caliph Almamon, under whom, too, was made the first mensuration of the Earth that we know off, after the commencement of the Christian era, by two Arabian astronomers, who, in the plain of…

But it may be said we relish Schiller, because he is barbarous, violent, and like Shakespear. The favouring conditions probably include these two: that, being early apprenticed to a manual occupation, he was not compelled to acquire any other education in literature than he wanted, or to acquire it for…

“The opening scene of the _Sparagus Garden_,” says Swinburne, “is as happily humorous and as vividly natural as that of any more famous comedy.” The scene is both humorous and natural. Footnote 4: As a singular example of steadiness of nerves, Mr. With him, therefore, every object of nature, which…

I am what I am in spite of the future. He looked with wonder upon the world as upon a fairyland. . What I ought to perform, how much I ought to perform, when and where I {155} ought to perform it, the whole nature and circumstances of the action…

{227} The descriptions of the movements expressive of mirth, given by these visitors to savage tribes, are not as a rule full or exact. Had Massinger been a greater man, a man of more intellectual courage, the current of English literature immediately after him might have taken a different course….