The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature, 2. kötet1818 |
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24. oldal
... Odin and of his successors . The narrative of the deeds of this ancient conqueror of the north , who at last was worshipped as a deity , can only be considered ás a very interesting romance . We will here give an abridgment of it , and ...
... Odin and of his successors . The narrative of the deeds of this ancient conqueror of the north , who at last was worshipped as a deity , can only be considered ás a very interesting romance . We will here give an abridgment of it , and ...
26. oldal
... Odin as its chief . He had been raised to the supreme authority by the cruel means which were in use in his nation ; that is , after having successively van- quished , in single combat , all those of his compatriots , and even of his ...
... Odin as its chief . He had been raised to the supreme authority by the cruel means which were in use in his nation ; that is , after having successively van- quished , in single combat , all those of his compatriots , and even of his ...
27. oldal
... Odin and the beautiful Freya , he conceived the design of engaging the warlike Ases in his quarrel with the Romans . Mithradates , therefore , received the barbarian with the greatest kindness ; admitted him to his table ; and , after ...
... Odin and the beautiful Freya , he conceived the design of engaging the warlike Ases in his quarrel with the Romans . Mithradates , therefore , received the barbarian with the greatest kindness ; admitted him to his table ; and , after ...
28. oldal
... Odin might embark his troops on vessels which Mithradates pledged himself to send , and by which they would be conveyed to Byzantium . Mimer kept his word . He faithfully , and even for- cibly , related to Odin all that he had seen and ...
... Odin might embark his troops on vessels which Mithradates pledged himself to send , and by which they would be conveyed to Byzantium . Mimer kept his word . He faithfully , and even for- cibly , related to Odin all that he had seen and ...
61. oldal
... ODIN . Resumed from page 28 . ODIN had naturally a mind formed to conceive the most vast projects , and he was capable of taking mea- sures to carry them into effect , with as much wisdom as boldness . The country in which he was born ...
... ODIN . Resumed from page 28 . ODIN had naturally a mind formed to conceive the most vast projects , and he was capable of taking mea- sures to carry them into effect , with as much wisdom as boldness . The country in which he was born ...
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230. oldal - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
344. oldal - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
230. oldal - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
230. oldal - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
230. oldal - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
197. oldal - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
94. oldal - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
98. oldal - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
320. oldal - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
205. oldal - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...