The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, Volume 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... Homer , as was first indicated by the sagacity of Bentley , sufficiently shew that it was anciently employed also by the Ionians . It seems in fact to have been originally nothing more than the Vau of the Orientals , and like that ...
... Homer , as was first indicated by the sagacity of Bentley , sufficiently shew that it was anciently employed also by the Ionians . It seems in fact to have been originally nothing more than the Vau of the Orientals , and like that ...
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... Homer . Their art fell into contempt , when it dege- nerated into a mercenary performance , professed by ignorant and ar- rogant men , who scarcely understood the works which they recited , and more especially when the necessity of it ...
... Homer . Their art fell into contempt , when it dege- nerated into a mercenary performance , professed by ignorant and ar- rogant men , who scarcely understood the works which they recited , and more especially when the necessity of it ...
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... Homer , complex yet regular in the structure of their lan- guage , rich in their stores of expression , and governed by fixed and exact laws of versification , were the earliest efforts of the muse . Yet the greater part of these poems ...
... Homer , complex yet regular in the structure of their lan- guage , rich in their stores of expression , and governed by fixed and exact laws of versification , were the earliest efforts of the muse . Yet the greater part of these poems ...
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... Homer the shade or image of Patroclus not only exhibits his figure , eyes , and visage , but the cloaths also which he had been accus- tomed to wear . When lo ! * the Shade , before his closing eyes , Of sad Patroclus rose , or seem'd ...
... Homer the shade or image of Patroclus not only exhibits his figure , eyes , and visage , but the cloaths also which he had been accus- tomed to wear . When lo ! * the Shade , before his closing eyes , Of sad Patroclus rose , or seem'd ...
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... Homer , appears from the discourse and employment of the heroes in the eleventh and twen- ty - fourth Books of the Odyssey . Thus the shade of Agamemnon sheds a profusion of tears at the sight of his ancient friend Ulysses , and ...
... Homer , appears from the discourse and employment of the heroes in the eleventh and twen- ty - fourth Books of the Odyssey . Thus the shade of Agamemnon sheds a profusion of tears at the sight of his ancient friend Ulysses , and ...
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Page 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
Page 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Page 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Page 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Page 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
Page 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Page 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.