Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 من الصفحات |
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... reader that Homer's wo- men are infinitely preferable to Virgil's ; but it is not a little remarkab e , that the women of Ossian are equal in grace , and superior in delicacy and feminine tenderness to both . The icicles on Dian's ...
... reader that Homer's wo- men are infinitely preferable to Virgil's ; but it is not a little remarkab e , that the women of Ossian are equal in grace , and superior in delicacy and feminine tenderness to both . The icicles on Dian's ...
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... reader will be de- lighted with them ; he will find that , in several , the French bard has mounted the winged steed , and soared with no middle flight . * It was not till " the subtle thief of youth " had stolen all his early years ...
... reader will be de- lighted with them ; he will find that , in several , the French bard has mounted the winged steed , and soared with no middle flight . * It was not till " the subtle thief of youth " had stolen all his early years ...
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... reader into the scenes which he describes , and makes him partake of their agitation . An antiquarian pictu- resque is frequently introduced , which , particularly to those who are skilled in antiquarian lore , has an indes- cribable ...
... reader into the scenes which he describes , and makes him partake of their agitation . An antiquarian pictu- resque is frequently introduced , which , particularly to those who are skilled in antiquarian lore , has an indes- cribable ...
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... readers to understand ; and that , by describing common things or occurrences with too much pomp , he sometimes borders on the burlesque . This may be thought to justify Gibbon's expression , that " Pope's translation has every merit ...
... readers to understand ; and that , by describing common things or occurrences with too much pomp , he sometimes borders on the burlesque . This may be thought to justify Gibbon's expression , that " Pope's translation has every merit ...
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... reader , the poet introduces this cele- brated simile : it may be thus literally translated : " As when , in the heavens , the stars around the resplendent moon shine in greatest lus- tre , and the air is without wind , the watch ...
... reader , the poet introduces this cele- brated simile : it may be thus literally translated : " As when , in the heavens , the stars around the resplendent moon shine in greatest lus- tre , and the air is without wind , the watch ...
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الصفحة 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
الصفحة 76 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, — enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land....
الصفحة 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
الصفحة 23 - 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 unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
الصفحة 133 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 173 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
الصفحة 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
الصفحة 132 - ... to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.
الصفحة 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.