The rhapsodist; or, Mes souvenirs, an epistle [in verse].Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne, 1817 - 99 стор. |
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... Greek and Latin lan- guages , but especially of the former , over any modern idiom , is denied by none , except by such , as do not understand a syllable of either . Some of these , how- ever extraordinary it may appear , are extremely ...
... Greek and Latin lan- guages , but especially of the former , over any modern idiom , is denied by none , except by such , as do not understand a syllable of either . Some of these , how- ever extraordinary it may appear , are extremely ...
Сторінка xi
... Greeks studied their own language exclusively ; and to the study of that language , with all its natural advanta- ges , they brought an assiduity , a minuteness , and an intenseness of application , that had no example , and has had no ...
... Greeks studied their own language exclusively ; and to the study of that language , with all its natural advanta- ges , they brought an assiduity , a minuteness , and an intenseness of application , that had no example , and has had no ...
Сторінка xiv
... Greeks ; a people , with a sin- gularity of feature in their character , which distin- guished them , not only from all the nations of antiquity , but also from mankind at large , without exception of either time or country ; I mean ...
... Greeks ; a people , with a sin- gularity of feature in their character , which distin- guished them , not only from all the nations of antiquity , but also from mankind at large , without exception of either time or country ; I mean ...
Сторінка xvi
... Greeks , superior to the vicissitudes of time and fortune , kept constantly clear of the vices of ex- cessive refinement ; and , as it had , in its origin , escaped all the grossness and rusticity of barbarism , so , at no period of its ...
... Greeks , superior to the vicissitudes of time and fortune , kept constantly clear of the vices of ex- cessive refinement ; and , as it had , in its origin , escaped all the grossness and rusticity of barbarism , so , at no period of its ...
Сторінка xviii
... Greeks to have been ? During the infancy of taste , says a judicious writer , imagination is suffered to roam , as in sleep , without control . Wonder is the passion of savages and of rustics ; to raise which , nothing is xviii.
... Greeks to have been ? During the infancy of taste , says a judicious writer , imagination is suffered to roam , as in sleep , without control . Wonder is the passion of savages and of rustics ; to raise which , nothing is xviii.
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The Rhapsodist, Or, Mes Souvenirs: In an Epistle to Aristus Richard Esmond Comerford Повний перегляд - 1817 |
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Academus admiration ANACREON ARISTUS arms atque bade bard beauties beneath blaze bosom CÆSAR character charms Cicero composition conceit Copies coursers critic cùm Demosthenes despotism divine earth epic Epicurus ev'n fame feel fire forms frenzy glory grace Greece Greeks heav'n Homer Homer's genius human Iliad immortal impious ingenii inspired Jove judgment Jupiter labour language LATIUM Lord Byron lustre lyre mankind mighty mihi mind moral muse nations nature neque nihil nobler numbers o'er Odyssey passion Persia PHEIDIAS plain poem Poet Poet's powers praise pride prose quæ quid rays Reilly rerum Rhapsodist rhyme Robert Atkins Roman Rome sacred scene sensibility sentiment SHAKESPEAR's skies Sophocles soul spirit splendour sublime superior tamen taste tempest Tertullian thine thing thunder tion tone verò verse videtur Voltaire Whate'er Whilst William Reilly writer yield γαρ δε και Όμηρου ου τε τὴν
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Сторінка 65 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Сторінка 60 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Сторінка 5 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Сторінка 61 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Сторінка 59 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Сторінка 54 - Deus, ecce, deus!' Cui talia fanti ante fores subito non vultus, non color unus, non comptae mansere comae; sed pectus anhelum, et rabie fera corda tument; maiorque videri nec mortale sonans, afflata est numine quando 50 iam propiore dei. 'Cessas in vota precesque, Tros
Сторінка 55 - Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, Res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes, in publica commoda peccem. Si longo sermone morer tua tempora, Caesar.
Сторінка 59 - And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman (g) ; though the master's right to his service may possibly still continue (6), (7).
Сторінка 83 - When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.
Сторінка 55 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?