Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper, 1833 - 324 sider |
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... knowledge . Having read a number of very favourable notices of the Family Library , I purchased , a few weeks since , the first eight numbers of that work , and placed it at the disposal of the young men under my charge . The anxiety ...
... knowledge . Having read a number of very favourable notices of the Family Library , I purchased , a few weeks since , the first eight numbers of that work , and placed it at the disposal of the young men under my charge . The anxiety ...
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... knowledge ; and those who cultivate this talent may occasionally hit upon some happy theme , and handle it with such unaccustomed delicacy or force , that for a while they outdo themselves , and produce that which adds to the public ...
... knowledge ; and those who cultivate this talent may occasionally hit upon some happy theme , and handle it with such unaccustomed delicacy or force , that for a while they outdo themselves , and produce that which adds to the public ...
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... knowledge , virtue , and intellectual superiority . The poems of Homer ex- isted long before Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in ...
... knowledge , virtue , and intellectual superiority . The poems of Homer ex- isted long before Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in ...
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... knowledge , therefore , of the subject , the figures in the most perfect histor- ical group are nameless ; the business in which they are engaged is obscure ; while often the country , the age , and even the class of life to which they ...
... knowledge , therefore , of the subject , the figures in the most perfect histor- ical group are nameless ; the business in which they are engaged is obscure ; while often the country , the age , and even the class of life to which they ...
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... knowledge concerning the past , is compelled to vail to poetry . Not that the records of actual events can be so properly conveyed in verse ( though bards in all nations were the first Thence to the famous orators repair , Those ancient ...
... knowledge concerning the past , is compelled to vail to poetry . Not that the records of actual events can be so properly conveyed in verse ( though bards in all nations were the first Thence to the famous orators repair , Those ancient ...
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Side 28 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Side 263 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Side 29 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Side 225 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Side 243 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Side 13 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Side 227 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Side 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Side 139 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Side 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.