The Quarterly Review, Volume 51William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1834 - English literature |
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... honour - beauty , grace , dignity , goodness ? ' That woman whom I had seen at Versailles resplendent with ma- jesty and happiness - throwing into the shade , by her personal qualities , that most brilliant court and the youngest and ...
... honour - beauty , grace , dignity , goodness ? ' That woman whom I had seen at Versailles resplendent with ma- jesty and happiness - throwing into the shade , by her personal qualities , that most brilliant court and the youngest and ...
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... honour of the God as for the praise of the man . We ought to say that the Divinity was more regarded than the winner of the prize ; for it would have revolted the reli- gious and the prudential feelings of a Greek of Pindar's age to ...
... honour of the God as for the praise of the man . We ought to say that the Divinity was more regarded than the winner of the prize ; for it would have revolted the reli- gious and the prudential feelings of a Greek of Pindar's age to ...
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... honours of victory in the games , and the fellow - countrymen of the winner made less account of his Olympic crown ... honour of Diagoras , their giant boxer - the seventh Olympic- that they caused it to be inscribed in letters of gold ...
... honours of victory in the games , and the fellow - countrymen of the winner made less account of his Olympic crown ... honour of Diagoras , their giant boxer - the seventh Olympic- that they caused it to be inscribed in letters of gold ...
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... honour of the Pythian victors is erected and preserved - which treasure ( = the ideal treasure of fame and song , as opposed to the gold and silver offerings in the Delphic treasury ) neither wind nor rain shall affect ; but on the ...
... honour of the Pythian victors is erected and preserved - which treasure ( = the ideal treasure of fame and song , as opposed to the gold and silver offerings in the Delphic treasury ) neither wind nor rain shall affect ; but on the ...
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... honour of victory in the games , or that associated with military glory , or with riches , or royal power , or high birth . With this felicity Pindar conjoins wisdom , or piety , or moderation - either , as most commonly , pre- dicating ...
... honour of victory in the games , or that associated with military glory , or with riches , or royal power , or high birth . With this felicity Pindar conjoins wisdom , or piety , or moderation - either , as most commonly , pre- dicating ...
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Page 41 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 78 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 27 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind ; Some rich Philistian matron she may seem, And now, at nearer view, no other certain Than Dalila thy wife.
Page 42 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 468 - There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 130 - Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way.
Page 88 - At Crawley's booth, over against the Crown tavern in Smithfield, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called ' The Old Creation of the World,' yet newly revived ; with the addition of Noah's Flood; also several fountains playing water during the time of the play.
Page 305 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Page 305 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Page 432 - Orientale;' but for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations; and bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his 'Happy Valley' will not bear a comparison with the 'Hall of Eblis.