Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1814 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... Roman names of the months , are subjoined the corresponding Saxon appellations , which are now obsolete , though we still retain in constant use the names given by our rude ancestors to the seven days of the week . After having told the ...
... Roman names of the months , are subjoined the corresponding Saxon appellations , which are now obsolete , though we still retain in constant use the names given by our rude ancestors to the seven days of the week . After having told the ...
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... Romans : but , if Mr. B. had turned to Cote- lerius , he would have found two ; though the second is imperfect . On the whole , however , this work is creditable to the in- dustry of the compiler ; and , as an illustration of the ...
... Romans : but , if Mr. B. had turned to Cote- lerius , he would have found two ; though the second is imperfect . On the whole , however , this work is creditable to the in- dustry of the compiler ; and , as an illustration of the ...
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... Roman character . Notes are occasionally attached which pretend to supply the deficient information of the text , or refer the reader to such supplement : but these notes are not sufficiently numerous and extensive to constitute an ...
... Roman character . Notes are occasionally attached which pretend to supply the deficient information of the text , or refer the reader to such supplement : but these notes are not sufficiently numerous and extensive to constitute an ...
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... Roman . orator , never fail to animate and direct his career in literature and through life ! We trust that we shall soon have to meet his Lordship again ; and , without diminishing the merit of the work before us , we hope that it will ...
... Roman . orator , never fail to animate and direct his career in literature and through life ! We trust that we shall soon have to meet his Lordship again ; and , without diminishing the merit of the work before us , we hope that it will ...
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... Roman empire ; and subjoined to the whole are an appendix and postscript . The former contains some apposite citations and illustrations of passages in Herodotus , Strabo , Diodorus Siculus , and Pliny , with an extract from the ...
... Roman empire ; and subjoined to the whole are an appendix and postscript . The former contains some apposite citations and illustrations of passages in Herodotus , Strabo , Diodorus Siculus , and Pliny , with an extract from the ...
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Page 190 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 157 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 195 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 432 - But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung ; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung ; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean...
Page 62 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 190 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 244 - While maidens laugh'd and minstrels sang, Still closer to her ear — But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail When ladies dare to hear ? Or wherefore trace from what slight cause Its source one tyrant passion draws, Till, mastering all within, Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin?
Page 432 - He fell, the forest-prowlers' prey ; But thou must eat thy heart away ! The Roman, when his burning heart Was slaked with blood of Rome, Threw down the dagger, dared depart, In savage grandeur, home. He dared depart in utter scorn Of men that such a yoke had borne, Yet left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandoned power.
Page 60 - My tent on shore, my galley on the sea, Are more than cities and serais to me : Borne by my steed, or wafted by my sail, Across the desert, or before the gale. Bound where thou wilt, my barb ! or glide, my prow ! But be the star that guides the wanderer, Thou...
Page 238 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And, down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed. But, midmost of the vale, a mound Arose, with airy turrets crown'd, Buttress, and rampire's circling bound, And mighty keep and tower ; Seem'd some primeval giant's hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd, A ponderous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod's. power.