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... language of the Deacon in the Roman High Mass : " Ite , missa est . " The Latin adverb extemplo implies a very prompt compliance with such command . being bid far distant , he was led to the 20 ON THE ISIAC MYSTERIES .
... language of the Deacon in the Roman High Mass : " Ite , missa est . " The Latin adverb extemplo implies a very prompt compliance with such command . being bid far distant , he was led to the 20 ON THE ISIAC MYSTERIES .
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... language while solemn our mien , With jest and with moral relieve we the scene . Let a garland fillet each votary's brow ! Iacchus companion of pomp and vow ! Thou hast taught us sweet music's note and time ! Unwearied hast marched to ...
... language while solemn our mien , With jest and with moral relieve we the scene . Let a garland fillet each votary's brow ! Iacchus companion of pomp and vow ! Thou hast taught us sweet music's note and time ! Unwearied hast marched to ...
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... languages . If one language will not serve , the adduction of a second can but be most arbitrary and perplexing . And let him beware how he yields to sound and scarcely less how , in reducing words from their accidents to their radicals ...
... languages . If one language will not serve , the adduction of a second can but be most arbitrary and perplexing . And let him beware how he yields to sound and scarcely less how , in reducing words from their accidents to their radicals ...
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... language to Penelope and as the ivory door opens to the dreams which are only imaginary , Æneas , on that principle , by coming out of it and not the gate of horn , would represent the whole secret , if initiation were intended , to be ...
... language to Penelope and as the ivory door opens to the dreams which are only imaginary , Æneas , on that principle , by coming out of it and not the gate of horn , would represent the whole secret , if initiation were intended , to be ...
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... languages , affording fresh expressions to the understanding , and opening other fields to the imagination ; and that thus all the shifting scenery and the ceaseless vicissitudes of the external world , tend only to develope the powers ...
... languages , affording fresh expressions to the understanding , and opening other fields to the imagination ; and that thus all the shifting scenery and the ceaseless vicissitudes of the external world , tend only to develope the powers ...
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Æneid Æschylus affected amidst ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Aristophanes Aristotle asked Bacchus beauty boast brain called character Cicero common confess course Craniologists Craniology death divine earth Eleans Eleusis enquiry Euripides evil express Falstaff fame favour fear feel Games genius give Grecian Greece Greek head heart heaven Hercules Herodotus heroes honour human idea identity Iliad impression intellectual Julius Cæsar Jupiter king language Latin living look Macbeth means ment mind moral mysteries nations nature never noble Olympic once organs original Osiris Palæstra passion Pausanias peculiar perfect perhaps person Phidias philosophy Pindar Plato Plutarch poet principle probably prove quæ Roman sacred Saxon says scarcely scene seems sense sentiment Shakspeare signifies skull solemn song Sophocles soul sound speak species spirit strange supposed temple thee thing Thou thought Thucydides tion truth virtue word