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... Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in Spain ; Camoens , in Portugal ; as well as our own Shaks- peare , Spenser , and Milton ...
... Greece arrived at its zenith of glory , or even of highly advanced civilization . Dante , Petrarch , and Ariosto , in Italy ; Ercilla , in Spain ; Camoens , in Portugal ; as well as our own Shaks- peare , Spenser , and Milton ...
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... Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must have been metrical . " Blest pair of Sy- rens , Voice and Verse ! " exclaims the ...
... Greece remained a nymph , even after she had passed away into a sound . But the first music must have been vocal , and the first words sung to notes must have been metrical . " Blest pair of Sy- rens , Voice and Verse ! " exclaims the ...
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... Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which she borrowed from them . Perhaps in portrait alone can painting claim the advantage of poetry ; because there the pencil perpetuates the very ...
... Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which she borrowed from them . Perhaps in portrait alone can painting claim the advantage of poetry ; because there the pencil perpetuates the very ...
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... Greece may be advantageously quoted here : - " There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Eolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his , who ...
... Greece may be advantageously quoted here : - " There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony , in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand ; and various - measured verse , Eolian charms and Dorian lyric odes , And his , who ...
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... that fierce democratie , Shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes ' throne . " Paradise Regained , book tv . chroniclers ) as they may be , through all their THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY . 35.
... that fierce democratie , Shook the arsenal and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes ' throne . " Paradise Regained , book tv . chroniclers ) as they may be , through all their THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY . 35.
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Page 28 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 263 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 29 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 225 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 243 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Page 13 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 227 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 139 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.