Miscellanies: Chiefly Addresses, Academical and HistoricalTrübner & Company, 1869 - 356 páginas |
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... Iliad of HOMER . Again we may take the far milder task of deciphering a very illwritten letter , or MS . damaged by rot or fire , a classical text corrupted by frequent recopying and we may inquire , what is the nature of the argument ...
... Iliad of HOMER . Again we may take the far milder task of deciphering a very illwritten letter , or MS . damaged by rot or fire , a classical text corrupted by frequent recopying and we may inquire , what is the nature of the argument ...
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... Iliad : if it be a quarter of that length , the undertaking would be formid- able . Especially now that we demand in each line a certain poetical excellence , the effort of appreciating each line increases to the reader . To read very ...
... Iliad : if it be a quarter of that length , the undertaking would be formid- able . Especially now that we demand in each line a certain poetical excellence , the effort of appreciating each line increases to the reader . To read very ...
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... Iliad is like an unfinished cathedral : for why should it end with the burial of Hector ? We should not have missed the last book ; and some treat it as spurious . But the Odyssey ends with a real novelists ' conclusion , the hero ...
... Iliad is like an unfinished cathedral : for why should it end with the burial of Hector ? We should not have missed the last book ; and some treat it as spurious . But the Odyssey ends with a real novelists ' conclusion , the hero ...
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... Iliad is a corrupting book . Such perhaps it really was to ALEXANDER THE GREAT , teaching him to sympathize with and devoutly admire a proud , re- vengeful , bloodthirsty , imperious , self - glorifying , but beautiful and brave ...
... Iliad is a corrupting book . Such perhaps it really was to ALEXANDER THE GREAT , teaching him to sympathize with and devoutly admire a proud , re- vengeful , bloodthirsty , imperious , self - glorifying , but beautiful and brave ...
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... Iliad we are often informed in parenthesis of little facts , which have no bearing on the argument , but seem to come out quite undesignedly , from the exuberance of the poet's knowledge , barely because they are true . VIRGIL tries to ...
... Iliad we are often informed in parenthesis of little facts , which have no bearing on the argument , but seem to come out quite undesignedly , from the exuberance of the poet's knowledge , barely because they are true . VIRGIL tries to ...
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Miscellanies, Chiefly Addresses, Academical and Historical Francis William Newman Vista completa - 1869 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ÆSCHYLUS AGATHOCLES Analogy ancient antiquity Arabs argument army assembly Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylon barbarians beautiful become believe CÆSAR called Carthage Carthaginians character chief citizens civilized colonies commerce concerning conquered consuls cultivated definition doctrine of Chances Egypt Egyptian elected empire English Epic Epic poetry equal fact force foreign give Greece Greek HANNIBAL Hebrew hence HERODOTUS HOMER honour horse human ILIAD imagination India Induction infer interest king land language Latin LECTURE less limits loan logic mean ment Mesopotamia metaphor metre military mind modern moral nation natural never Nevertheless Nineveh noble perhaps Persian Phoenicians plebeians poem poet poetical poetry POLYBIUS Prætor priests probably proposition prose Punic reason religion religious republic Roman Roman republic Rome savage Scythians seems Senate sense Sicily slaves suppose Syllogism taxes thing tion tribes verbal truth vote whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 113 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Página 109 - For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. How many hours of night or day In those suspended pangs I lay, I could not tell ; I scarcely knew If this were human breath I drew.
Página 135 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Página 115 - Dragg'd from among the horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone, Can that be haughty Marmion ! . . . Young Blount his...
Página 131 - They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn: The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness; the...
Página 138 - With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; Restless it rolls, now fix'd and now anon Flashing afar, — and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Página 136 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; Tliis fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection, and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world ; This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página 326 - All scattered in the bottom of the sea, Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Página 129 - Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! WEEP NOT FOR THOSE.
Página 81 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.