"Annotation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... application may be received, instead of the lo se and general sense of the Greek interpreters, Balsamor Zonaras, and Alexis Aristenus. See Beveridge, Pandect. Eccles. Graec. tom. i. p. 72, tom. ii. p. 73 Annotation.] ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... became the light of his harem by the process of cutting the throat of her first husband. If this annotation, to be made in all copies of the poem, do not wring all charm out of the names by which the poet's lady is known to fame, then fiction again will prove ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... indeed no more but the honest effects of nature: what invented by us is philosophy, learned from him is magic. We do surely owe the discovery of many secrets to the discovery of good and bad angels. I could never pass that sentence of Paracelsus without an asterisk or annotation: "Ascendens astrum multa revelat quaerentibus magnalia naturae, i.e., opera Dei." I do think that many mysteries ascribed to our own inventions have been the courteous revelations of spirits,—for those noble essences ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... This motive of the intelligent slave-girl also occurs in the story of the three empires. "On her forehead she wrote the name of the Great God": Regarding this god, Tai I, the Great One, compare annotation to No. 18. The God of the Great Bear, i.e., of the constellation. The letters which are exchanged are quite as noticeable for what is implied between the lines, as for what is actually ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various
... conventional critics who believed they kept the gates of Fame would neither understand nor credit him. Nine years after these papers appeared, Charles Gildon, who passed for a critic of considerable mark, edited with copious annotation as the Laws of Poetry (1721), the Duke of Buckingham's Essay on Poetry, Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and Lord Lansdowne on Unnatural Flights in Poetry, and in the course of ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
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