Nugae Literariae: Prose and VerseHamilton, 1841 - 585 páginas |
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... Greeks excelled . But the pale marble of Hymettus and Pantelicus , — or the blue - veined , as if that tinge were just traced on it to match the human skin , found in the mines of Patos , -were the substances preferred . The proudest ...
... Greeks excelled . But the pale marble of Hymettus and Pantelicus , — or the blue - veined , as if that tinge were just traced on it to match the human skin , found in the mines of Patos , -were the substances preferred . The proudest ...
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... Greek ! How taste stole thence its embellishment and reasoning acquired its confirmation ! How it entered into every constitution of society and office of life ! It was a universal element or principle dif- fused as air , subtile as ...
... Greek ! How taste stole thence its embellishment and reasoning acquired its confirmation ! How it entered into every constitution of society and office of life ! It was a universal element or principle dif- fused as air , subtile as ...
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... Greek words expressive of obligation , Xgn , As , O4 . The first implies the utility , the second the binding necessity , the third the equitable due , of the moral act . But the divine nature is not a subject within human compass ; and ...
... Greek words expressive of obligation , Xgn , As , O4 . The first implies the utility , the second the binding necessity , the third the equitable due , of the moral act . But the divine nature is not a subject within human compass ; and ...
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... Greeks were most apt and judicious . Delos was one of these holy haunts . An annual expe- dition of offerings was fitted out for it . It reposed on those pure waters , the most beautiful of the Cyclades . The spot is now covered with ...
... Greeks were most apt and judicious . Delos was one of these holy haunts . An annual expe- dition of offerings was fitted out for it . It reposed on those pure waters , the most beautiful of the Cyclades . The spot is now covered with ...
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... Greeks were instructed . " * The Judges of the Olympic Stadium sent ( still according to Herodotus , † ) ambassadors who were Eleans to Psammis , king of Egypt , to consult respecting these games , and to ask what improvements could be ...
... Greeks were instructed . " * The Judges of the Olympic Stadium sent ( still according to Herodotus , † ) ambassadors who were Eleans to Psammis , king of Egypt , to consult respecting these games , and to ask what improvements could be ...
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Æschylus affected amidst ancient Anglo-Saxon animal appears Aristophanes asked Bacchus beauty boast brain Cæsar called character Cicero common confess consciousness course Craniologists Craniology death dialect divine earth Eleans Eleusis enquiry Euripides evil express Falstaff favour fear feel Games genius give Greece Greek head heart heaven Hercules Herodotus honour human idea identity Iliad impression intellectual Joanna Baillie Julius Cæsar king language living look Macbeth means memory ment mind moral mysteries nations nature never noble Olympic once organs original Osiris Palæstra passion Pausanias peculiar perfect perhaps person Phidias philosophy Pindar Plato Plautus Plutarch poet principle probably prove quæ reason Roman Saxon says scarcely scene seems sense sentiment Shakspeare skull solemn Sophocles soul sound speak species spirit strange supposed temple thee thing Thou thought Thucydides tion tragedy truth virtue word
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Página 192 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Página 217 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Página 405 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Página 34 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,...
Página 263 - When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
Página 153 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Página 48 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 207 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Página 213 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 214 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.