Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, 1-4. kötetScotzniovsky, 1858 |
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60. oldal
... existence , so that , unless reprinted , they would be lost to future generations . To this Dr. K. answers that we must reflect that " the English tongue has been racked by periodical changes in spelling , which appear to have been ...
... existence , so that , unless reprinted , they would be lost to future generations . To this Dr. K. answers that we must reflect that " the English tongue has been racked by periodical changes in spelling , which appear to have been ...
90. oldal
... existence . Whoever , therefore , ventures to dissect Homer , Arctinus and Leschês , and to pick out certain portions as matters of fact , while he sets aside the rest as fiction , must do so in full reliance on his own powers of ...
... existence . Whoever , therefore , ventures to dissect Homer , Arctinus and Leschês , and to pick out certain portions as matters of fact , while he sets aside the rest as fiction , must do so in full reliance on his own powers of ...
92. oldal
... existence good enough for them ? In the concluding chapter of this volume , Mr. Grote felicitously illustrates his positions by comparing the mythes of ancient Greece with those of modern Europe . In the former country the mythopoeic ...
... existence good enough for them ? In the concluding chapter of this volume , Mr. Grote felicitously illustrates his positions by comparing the mythes of ancient Greece with those of modern Europe . In the former country the mythopoeic ...
93. oldal
... existence of a basis of fact to some of the Greek legends , but the possibility of our determinig what that fact is . For all that we know to the contrary , Dio Chrysostom's ver- sion of the Trojan war may be the true one , and the ...
... existence of a basis of fact to some of the Greek legends , but the possibility of our determinig what that fact is . For all that we know to the contrary , Dio Chrysostom's ver- sion of the Trojan war may be the true one , and the ...
96. oldal
... existence of alphabetical writing at the time when the Iliad was composed . " On this famous and much disputed passage , Thirlwall acutely observes , that it " has been the subject of contro- versy , perhaps , more earnest than the case ...
... existence of alphabetical writing at the time when the Iliad was composed . " On this famous and much disputed passage , Thirlwall acutely observes , that it " has been the subject of contro- versy , perhaps , more earnest than the case ...
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175. oldal - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
2. oldal - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
189. oldal - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.
208. oldal - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
46. oldal - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden, everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
16. oldal - With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
190. oldal - And so through those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee ; come Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself, Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.
190. oldal - Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
90. oldal - Dei'phobus in the under-world ; if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
271. oldal - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.