New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... Pindar , in English Verse . By the Rev. Henry Francis Cary , A.M. This version of Pindar is neither introduced by a preface nor accompa- nied by notes ; all that we are permitted to know about it is , that it is the work of the ...
... Pindar , in English Verse . By the Rev. Henry Francis Cary , A.M. This version of Pindar is neither introduced by a preface nor accompa- nied by notes ; all that we are permitted to know about it is , that it is the work of the ...
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... Pindar , -not Pindar according to the fine and glowing description of the Roman bard , begin- ning with the well - known line- " Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari ; " and which is thus given by Mr. West , as introductory to his own ...
... Pindar , -not Pindar according to the fine and glowing description of the Roman bard , begin- ning with the well - known line- " Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari ; " and which is thus given by Mr. West , as introductory to his own ...
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... Pindar has wrought into his version , it will afford him very little idea of the original as thus described . Pope caught the very spirit of the illustrious Theban in the following lines : - " Four swans sustain a car of silver bright ...
... Pindar has wrought into his version , it will afford him very little idea of the original as thus described . Pope caught the very spirit of the illustrious Theban in the following lines : - " Four swans sustain a car of silver bright ...
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... Pindaric spirit , without any Grecian character ; and , above all , unfit for singing , when we consider that the Grecians were never accompanied either by voice or instrument . The same may be said of the greater part of their intended ...
... Pindaric spirit , without any Grecian character ; and , above all , unfit for singing , when we consider that the Grecians were never accompanied either by voice or instrument . The same may be said of the greater part of their intended ...
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... Pindar ? The most polished court of Asia , at one period , was that of Polycrates , at Samos . But if the name of that accomplished prince - for accomplished he was in an eminent degree - happen ever to be mentioned in our time , it is ...
... Pindar ? The most polished court of Asia , at one period , was that of Polycrates , at Samos . But if the name of that accomplished prince - for accomplished he was in an eminent degree - happen ever to be mentioned in our time , it is ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 43 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 301 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 193 - Pont-Neuf at Paris, that more people go to see the horse than the king who sits upon it. On the contrary, it gives me a just indignation to see a person whose action gives new majesty to kings, resolution to heroes, and softness to lovers, thus sinking from the greatness of his behaviour, and degraded into the character of the London Prentice.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
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Page 378 - We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power.