Miscellaneous Writings of John Conington, Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 |
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... Homer , I resolved to make myself master of it . It was quite new , uncut , unsullied ; its publishing price is 31. 128. , this one cost me 17. 15s . It is accompanied with seventy illustrations by Flaxman . As soon as Mr. Warren saw it ...
... Homer , I resolved to make myself master of it . It was quite new , uncut , unsullied ; its publishing price is 31. 128. , this one cost me 17. 15s . It is accompanied with seventy illustrations by Flaxman . As soon as Mr. Warren saw it ...
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... Homer in his schoolboy days at Beverley - for poetical translations of the classics revived within him . He had become so dissatisfied with his Agamemnon that he hesitated a little before a second venture ; but when at last he did give ...
... Homer in his schoolboy days at Beverley - for poetical translations of the classics revived within him . He had become so dissatisfied with his Agamemnon that he hesitated a little before a second venture ; but when at last he did give ...
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... Homer , and almost an equal pleasure to have to attempt the management of the Spenserian stanza . Nor did he feel it any constraint to be obliged to regulate his treatment of that stanza by Mr. Worsley's . In his preface he half apolo ...
... Homer , and almost an equal pleasure to have to attempt the management of the Spenserian stanza . Nor did he feel it any constraint to be obliged to regulate his treatment of that stanza by Mr. Worsley's . In his preface he half apolo ...
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... Homer , will be read with pleasure : - Dear Sir , St. James's Square , April 5 , 1868 . I have delayed thanking you for your obliging letter of the 2nd inst . till I had time , I will not say to read through your translation of the ...
... Homer , will be read with pleasure : - Dear Sir , St. James's Square , April 5 , 1868 . I have delayed thanking you for your obliging letter of the 2nd inst . till I had time , I will not say to read through your translation of the ...
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... Homer is , and as full of the learning and thought of its time , I should think , as the Paradise Lost , while there is a spirit of intense patriotism pervading the whole . I was very much struck with a passage where he makes Virgil ...
... Homer is , and as full of the learning and thought of its time , I should think , as the Paradise Lost , while there is a spirit of intense patriotism pervading the whole . I was very much struck with a passage where he makes Virgil ...
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Page 83 - O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 81 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 86 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 97 - Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness...
Page 94 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 132 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 118 - What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust ? man delights not me — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 118 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Page 113 - Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous ; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Page 99 - Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?