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... poem called his ' Satisfactio , ' addressed from prison to Guthamundus or Gunda- mond , King of the Vandals , and is as follows : - Tempore , luna suo crescit uel deficit orbe , Cuius ad ætatem plurima lege notant . Nam luna crescente ...
... poem called his ' Satisfactio , ' addressed from prison to Guthamundus or Gunda- mond , King of the Vandals , and is as follows : - Tempore , luna suo crescit uel deficit orbe , Cuius ad ætatem plurima lege notant . Nam luna crescente ...
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... poets , I should be very glad , with the Editor's kind permission , to answer this In a very admirable passage quoted by Prof. Sellar in his ' Roman Poets of the Augustan Age , ' Burke according to Lord Macaulay " our greatest man since ...
... poets , I should be very glad , with the Editor's kind permission , to answer this In a very admirable passage quoted by Prof. Sellar in his ' Roman Poets of the Augustan Age , ' Burke according to Lord Macaulay " our greatest man since ...
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... poets , but of what Milton himself thought . I am not aware that Virgil has ever , at least since the revival of Greek learning in Europe , ranked amongst the poets of whom invention is the supreme quality ; he is , I suppose , the ...
... poets , but of what Milton himself thought . I am not aware that Virgil has ever , at least since the revival of Greek learning in Europe , ranked amongst the poets of whom invention is the supreme quality ; he is , I suppose , the ...
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... poem with which Schiller has blended his name precludes the necessity for further expla- nation . 6 1774 That Casanova returned to Venice in is a fact which I did not pretend to deny . Un- fortunately indisputable public documents point ...
... poem with which Schiller has blended his name precludes the necessity for further expla- nation . 6 1774 That Casanova returned to Venice in is a fact which I did not pretend to deny . Un- fortunately indisputable public documents point ...
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... poem concludes with a compliment to George II . It would seem , from there being in the theatre of Oxford two rostra opposite each DEDLUCK ( OR DIDLUCK ) , CO . SALOP ( 7th S. v . 488 ) . The querist admits that the correct read - other ...
... poem concludes with a compliment to George II . It would seem , from there being in the theatre of Oxford two rostra opposite each DEDLUCK ( OR DIDLUCK ) , CO . SALOP ( 7th S. v . 488 ) . The querist admits that the correct read - other ...
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Página 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Página 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Página 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Página 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Página 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Página 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Página 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Página 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,