Nugae Literariae: Prose and VerseHamilton, 1841 - 585페이지 |
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... Eleans were enjoined to offer sacrifice . That of the Alcmenan Hercules , will explain them as expiatory tributes to the Eleans against whom , and their ungrateful king , he had warred , but whom he was afterwards desirous to appease ...
... Eleans were enjoined to offer sacrifice . That of the Alcmenan Hercules , will explain them as expiatory tributes to the Eleans against whom , and their ungrateful king , he had warred , but whom he was afterwards desirous to appease ...
51 페이지
... Eleans should restore the Olympic Games . The chief of Lacedæmon concurred . However fabulous the machinery , the truth is evident , that religion and government felt the loss of that which had been formerly advantageous to both . It ...
... Eleans should restore the Olympic Games . The chief of Lacedæmon concurred . However fabulous the machinery , the truth is evident , that religion and government felt the loss of that which had been formerly advantageous to both . It ...
56 페이지
... Eleans to Psammis , king of Egypt , to consult respecting these games , and to ask what improvements could be suggested . He called together the wisest of his subjects to give them the conference . Why was this done , if Egypt was not ...
... Eleans to Psammis , king of Egypt , to consult respecting these games , and to ask what improvements could be suggested . He called together the wisest of his subjects to give them the conference . Why was this done , if Egypt was not ...
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... Elean law , and pilgrim- strangers might offer at any hour . While Jupiter was the Guardian of the scene , here was a lavish exemplification of the Intercommunity of worship . Whatever deity condescended a visit , male or female , they ...
... Elean law , and pilgrim- strangers might offer at any hour . While Jupiter was the Guardian of the scene , here was a lavish exemplification of the Intercommunity of worship . Whatever deity condescended a visit , male or female , they ...
63 페이지
... Eleans in a famine . And since these Games , as we shall find quickly , had much to do with the state of the chronology , and that chrono- logy was regulated by the lunar cycle , the tale of the shepherd king of Mount Latmos wooed by ...
... Eleans in a famine . And since these Games , as we shall find quickly , had much to do with the state of the chronology , and that chrono- logy was regulated by the lunar cycle , the tale of the shepherd king of Mount Latmos wooed by ...
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Æneid Æschylus amidst ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Aristophanes asked Bacchus beauty boast brain called character Cicero common course Craniology death dialect divine earth Eleans Eleusis enquiry Euripides evil express Falstaff fame father favour fear feel Games genius give gods Grecian Greece Greek head heart heaven Hercules Herodotus heroes Homer honour human idea impression intellectual Iphitus Julius Cæsar Jupiter king language Latin living look Macbeth means ment mind moral mysteries nations nature never noble Olympia Olympic Olympic Games once original Osiris Palæstra passion Pausanias peculiar perfect perhaps person philosophy Pindar Plato Plutarch poet probably prove quæ race Roman Rome sacred Saxon says scarcely scene seems sentiment Shakspeare signifies solemn Sophocles soul sound speak species spirit strange supposed temple thee thing thou thought Thucydides tion tragedy truth virtue word
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192 페이지 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
415 페이지 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
147 페이지 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
213 페이지 - tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
380 페이지 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
401 페이지 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
153 페이지 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
139 페이지 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
259 페이지 - When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
146 페이지 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles ; as the old burst, new emerge, Lash'd from the foam of ages ; while the graves Of empires heave but like some passing waves.