Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses, Volume 15

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Page 93 - Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. He is speaking of certain bad poets:— " He who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run
Page 719 - The extent to which Shakespeare had steeped himself in Ovid was noticed by his contemporaries. Meres wrote in 1598 : “ As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras so the witty soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare.” The classical learning displayed by Shakespeare was precisely what a
Page 717 - Besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his Art.
Page 93 - Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run
Page 95 - Whether thon choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair." The lines are singularly infelicitous. The Castilian gravity of Cervantes is one thing. The British gravity of Swift is quite another. Nor is there much in common between
Page 421 - the Managers, a total of 895 volumes added to the Library in the year. Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the past year. The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected
Page 635 - The Special Thanks of the Members wore returned for the following Donation to the Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures :— Mr. Hugh Leonard .. .. .. £50 The PRESENTS received since the last Meeting were laid on the table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same, viz.:—
Page 94 - the finest example of that strength with which Pope, in a well-known line, rightly credits Denham. And, assuredly, Pope by no means intended to ridicule them, when he addressed the unhappy Welsted:— " Flow, Welsted, flow, like thine inspirer Beer ; Though stale, not ripe; though thin, yet never clear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong; o'erflowing, though not full.
Page 21 - the power of speech. In China, the national religion centres round a worship of progenitors to very remote degrees, and Western nations exhibit the same instinctive desire to do honour to the memories of those who, by character and exploits, have distinguished themselves from the mass of their countrymen.
Page 136 - proportion of hydrogen, which is capable of liquefaction by the use of liquid air. The results are summed up in the following extract from the paper :—“ One thing can, however, be proved by the use of the gaseous mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen, viz, that by subjecting it to a high compression at a temperature of

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