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Page 308 - Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Page 184 - EUROPE. nature and climate have favoured beyond all others, once the home of all art and all civilisation ? Look yourself — ask those who live there — deserted villages, uncultivated plains, banditti-haunted mountains, torpid laws, a corrupt administration, a disappearing people.
Page 81 - Between the extended earth and starry sky. But when to Ida's topmost height he came, (Fair nurse of fountains and of savage game,) Where, o'er her pointed summits proudly...
Page 54 - Christian high-altar to the East, but must be turned in the exact direction of Mecca ? Must we always dimly trace in the overlaying fretwork of gold the obliterated features of the Redeemer ? This is all assuredly forbidden by copious and cogent, even if by conflicting causes, — by old Greek memories, by young Greek aspirations, by the ambition of states and sovereigns, by the sympathy of Christendom, by the sure word of prophecy.
Page 91 - Next by Scamander's double source they bound, Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground ; This hot through scorching clefts is seen to rise, With exhalations streaming to the skies ; That the green banks in summer's heat o'erflows, Like crystal clear, and cold as winter snows...
Page 312 - Buoy'd by some inward force, he seems to swim, And feels a pinion lifting every limb. And now he shakes his great paternal spear...
Page 263 - Almost the only river in the island is just at the proper distance from the probable site of the city and palace of the king, to justify the princess Nausicaa having had resort to her chariot and to luncheon when she went with the maidens of the court to wash their garments.
Page 189 - Let me just remark, that even the impressive declaration of the Apostle, that " God dwelleth not in temples made with hands," may seem to grow in effect when we remember that the buildings to which he must have almost inevitably pointed at that very moment were the most perfect that the hands of man have ever reared, and must have comprised the Theseum below, and the Parthenon above him. It seems to have been well that " art and man's device " should be reduced to their proper level, on the very...