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Side 121
... Athenæus , Stobæus , and other writers and collectors of antiquity , afford to our purposes a mine , so fertile , and so exuber . antly rich , that , in translating at all ( if we except what Mr Cumberland has given us , ) we can ...
... Athenæus , Stobæus , and other writers and collectors of antiquity , afford to our purposes a mine , so fertile , and so exuber . antly rich , that , in translating at all ( if we except what Mr Cumberland has given us , ) we can ...
Side 125
... Athenæus in his fourteenth book . We are now come to the fragments . And it is surely not a little unfortunate for Mr Cumberland , that the longest and most considerable one , which he has tran- slated as Epicharmus's , and with which ...
... Athenæus in his fourteenth book . We are now come to the fragments . And it is surely not a little unfortunate for Mr Cumberland , that the longest and most considerable one , which he has tran- slated as Epicharmus's , and with which ...
Side 126
... Athenæus has preserved a little epigram of his , " ( Archilochus's ) " no otherwise worth recording than as it is the only relic of his muse , except one distich in long and short verse , purporting that he was devoted to Mars and the ...
... Athenæus has preserved a little epigram of his , " ( Archilochus's ) " no otherwise worth recording than as it is the only relic of his muse , except one distich in long and short verse , purporting that he was devoted to Mars and the ...
Side 127
... Athenæus . It is taken from the Busiris , a comedy of Epicharmus ; and is distinguished by a strength and which , it is hoped , are not entirely lost in the version , or rather the free imitation , we have been able to give of it . The ...
... Athenæus . It is taken from the Busiris , a comedy of Epicharmus ; and is distinguished by a strength and which , it is hoped , are not entirely lost in the version , or rather the free imitation , we have been able to give of it . The ...
Side 171
... a great pugilist , a great wrestler , and a great glutton . An anecdote is recorded of him in Athenæus , that dining one day with the King of Per- sia , and cramming his maw most ravenous . ly , the monarch could not help enquiring , " 171.
... a great pugilist , a great wrestler , and a great glutton . An anecdote is recorded of him in Athenæus , that dining one day with the King of Per- sia , and cramming his maw most ravenous . ly , the monarch could not help enquiring , " 171.
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Side 171 - Oh! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Side 209 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now. What am I? Nothing; but not so art thou, Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth, Invisible but gazing, as I glow Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth, And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings
Side 163 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Side 116 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Side 209 - Cut to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent, sharp endurance: he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone caves, yet rife With airy images, and shapes which dwell Still unimpair'd, though old, in the soul's haunted cell.
Side 26 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 28 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Side 171 - The' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor lov'd the less For flowering in a wilderness. Our sands are bare, but down their slope The silvery-footed antelope As gracefully and gaily springs As o'er the marble courts of kings.
Side 190 - Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar ; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave ; "Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave.
Side 182 - Thus Nature spake — The work was done — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm, and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be.