"Lvii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... xlix; on "imagination," xlix; on substance and form, l; on poetry and metre, li; scope of his criticism, lii-liii; on Shakespeare, liii-lvi; on Elizabethan dramatists, lvi; on his contemporaries, lvii-lix; his prose style, lix-lxix; on diction, lxvi n.; use of quotations, lxix; influence, lxix-lxxiii; his view of English character, 19-20; on progress in the arts, 262, 358; friendship with Lamb, 398-400, 417; meeting with ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... the description of Adullam as the resort of "every one that was in distress,'' or "in debt,'' or "discontented,'' it has often been humorously alluded to, notably by Sir Walter Scott, who puts the expression into the mouth of the Baron of Bradwardine in Waverley, chap. lvii., and also of Balfour of Burley in Old Mortality. In modern political history the expression "cave of Adullam'' (hence "Adullamites'') came into common use (being first employed in a speech by John Bright on the 13th of March ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... any resistance to proposals so consonant to their own expressed opinions, but they took care to make their support as disagreeable and damaging as possible." (Lord Mahon's History of England, etc., Vol. VI., Chap. lvii., pp. 327-329.)] ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson
... who still hankered after those vicious indulgences which had been his main pursuits in his former days; or else that the Poet simply refers to human life, in the same spirit in which Seneca, Ep. lvii., calls old age, "faex vitae," "the lees of life." Others again suppose that Phaedrus alludes to his own old age, and means that those who knew him when this Fable was written, may judge from their present acquaintance with him what he must have been in his younger days. Heinsius ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
... 'Bush Notes,' 'Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' vol. xxxiii. art. lvii. ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris |
