The New Monthly Magazine, Volumen2E. Littell, 1822 |
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... human nature , 3 : bardic profession did not commence with Homer , 4 : poets recorded by Ho- mer , ib . opinions respecting Orpheus and his poetry , ib . 5 , 6 : no vestige of philosophical and religious mysticism in Homer , 7 : the era ...
... human nature , 3 : bardic profession did not commence with Homer , 4 : poets recorded by Ho- mer , ib . opinions respecting Orpheus and his poetry , ib . 5 , 6 : no vestige of philosophical and religious mysticism in Homer , 7 : the era ...
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... human manners . He speaks apparently with the full breast of a poet whose ambition had been fired and fostered by having seen prescriptive honours attached to the poetical art . Deliberate and circumstantial , he seems assured of ...
... human manners . He speaks apparently with the full breast of a poet whose ambition had been fired and fostered by having seen prescriptive honours attached to the poetical art . Deliberate and circumstantial , he seems assured of ...
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... human nature . and manners which so much enchants us in the works of Homer . He must have been an extensive traveller , and a poet of the peo- ple . Had it been otherwise , and had he been a mere retainer of a Prince's court , his ...
... human nature . and manners which so much enchants us in the works of Homer . He must have been an extensive traveller , and a poet of the peo- ple . Had it been otherwise , and had he been a mere retainer of a Prince's court , his ...
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... human memory can retain of another's com- position , it might certainly recollect of its own ; and this would be much more likely to be the case in the age of Homer than of Xenophon . Let us imagine all the circumstances of the age ope ...
... human memory can retain of another's com- position , it might certainly recollect of its own ; and this would be much more likely to be the case in the age of Homer than of Xenophon . Let us imagine all the circumstances of the age ope ...
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... human heart , together with the antiquity of his pictures , gives them a charm that we should exchange with reluctance for the representations of a more intellectual state of society . Even the redundance of his diction and description ...
... human heart , together with the antiquity of his pictures , gives them a charm that we should exchange with reluctance for the representations of a more intellectual state of society . Even the redundance of his diction and description ...
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Página 60 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 478 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 212 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 128 - Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass, Or held, by Solomon's own invitation, A torch at the great temple's dedication. I need not ask thee if that hand, when...
Página 129 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning! Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue ; that, when both must sever.
Página 128 - How the world looked when it was fresh and young, And the great Deluge still had left it green — Or was it then so old, that History's pages Contained no record of its early ages ? Still silent, incommunicative elf ? Art sworn to secrecy...
Página 166 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which...
Página 174 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 441 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Página 60 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given. Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...