The London University Magazine, Volume 1Fisher, Son, & Company, 1842 |
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... possession of the imperial purple . The instructions of Seneca had not been wholly without effect . He may have failed , if he ever attempted , to impart the stern and ungenial principles of the sect to which he was nominally attached ...
... possession of the imperial purple . The instructions of Seneca had not been wholly without effect . He may have failed , if he ever attempted , to impart the stern and ungenial principles of the sect to which he was nominally attached ...
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... possessed upon the character and genius of the people . However instructive and interesting it might be to explain and com- pare the various systems of Aristotle and Plato , the Pythagoreans and Atomists , the nature and limits of this ...
... possessed upon the character and genius of the people . However instructive and interesting it might be to explain and com- pare the various systems of Aristotle and Plato , the Pythagoreans and Atomists , the nature and limits of this ...
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... possessed , with equal distinctness , the ideas of force and pressure , it can scarcely be doubted that their progress in physical science would have been equally rapid . Indeed , the processes of formal astronomy , so far as they were ...
... possessed , with equal distinctness , the ideas of force and pressure , it can scarcely be doubted that their progress in physical science would have been equally rapid . Indeed , the processes of formal astronomy , so far as they were ...
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... possession of the translator , but to the many who will be anxious to examine them , we are happy in being enabled ... possessed of the same acquirement . No one , however , will be disposed to admit , that the author of the Iliad could ...
... possession of the translator , but to the many who will be anxious to examine them , we are happy in being enabled ... possessed of the same acquirement . No one , however , will be disposed to admit , that the author of the Iliad could ...
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... possessions . It appeared expedient " either to stop the Spanish monarch's springs of gold , and so dry up that torrent which carried his subduing armies everywhere , or else by the wakeful providence of threatened neighbours , force ...
... possessions . It appeared expedient " either to stop the Spanish monarch's springs of gold , and so dry up that torrent which carried his subduing armies everywhere , or else by the wakeful providence of threatened neighbours , force ...
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Page 354 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: " To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods...
Page 37 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 37 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 124 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Page 357 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home ; And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Page 59 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Page 230 - Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 223 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 306 - O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill; The grasshopper is silent in the grass; The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Page 354 - As thou sayest so let it be." And straight against that great array Forth went the dauntless Three. For Romans in Rome's quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old.