New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... beautiful and pro- longed similes , as a woman weeps over the husband of her love , who has fallen in battle , on whom she gazes as he pants and dies , till the enemy , smiting her shoulders with a spear , commands her far away into ...
... beautiful and pro- longed similes , as a woman weeps over the husband of her love , who has fallen in battle , on whom she gazes as he pants and dies , till the enemy , smiting her shoulders with a spear , commands her far away into ...
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... beautiful fiction , that the nightingales in the branches around it excelled all others in sweetness of song . But there was nevertheless an evidently divided opinion among the ancients respecting the authenticity and extreme antiquity ...
... beautiful fiction , that the nightingales in the branches around it excelled all others in sweetness of song . But there was nevertheless an evidently divided opinion among the ancients respecting the authenticity and extreme antiquity ...
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... beautiful verses . Hence philosophy , as she grew up in Greece , was complimented by a part of her admirers , as the true daughter of Homeric poetry , whilst , by others , she was flattered as too wise and goodly a personage to have ...
... beautiful verses . Hence philosophy , as she grew up in Greece , was complimented by a part of her admirers , as the true daughter of Homeric poetry , whilst , by others , she was flattered as too wise and goodly a personage to have ...
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... beautiful , and the situation of women appears in the Iliad to be much more free and honourable than we afterwards find in the height of Attic refinement . In short , we meet in Homer's heroism with all the natural flowers of human ...
... beautiful , and the situation of women appears in the Iliad to be much more free and honourable than we afterwards find in the height of Attic refinement . In short , we meet in Homer's heroism with all the natural flowers of human ...
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... beautiful , and predestined to fall . Casual glimpses of his manners are also given , that interestingly soften our conception of him . He is the only hero of the Iliad who amuses himself with music and poetry . The deputies of the army ...
... beautiful , and predestined to fall . Casual glimpses of his manners are also given , that interestingly soften our conception of him . He is the only hero of the Iliad who amuses himself with music and poetry . The deputies of the army ...
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Página 60 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd 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...
Página 360 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Página 129 - Have children climbed those knees, and kissed that face? What was thy name and station, age and race ? Statue of flesh, Immortal of the dead ! Imperishable type of evanescence, Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
Página 311 - So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
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 128 - Since first thy form was in this box extended, We have, above-ground, seen some strange mutations. The Roman empire has begun and ended, New worlds have risen — we have lost old nations, And countless Kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.
Página 265 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place?
Página 614 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 128 - Tell us - for doubtless thou canst recollect To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name? Is Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer?
Página 129 - O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder, When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder?