The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12Pudney & Russell, 1865 |
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... Persian captives to the gods.t The Romans were not as superstitious as the Greeks , and therefore did not indulge so much in human sacrifices ; but that they did immolate human beings , on important occa- sions , is beyond doubt . If we ...
... Persian captives to the gods.t The Romans were not as superstitious as the Greeks , and therefore did not indulge so much in human sacrifices ; but that they did immolate human beings , on important occa- sions , is beyond doubt . If we ...
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... Persian Basileus ; a huge magnifying - glass seemed to be ever before his mental vision . Every movement of his mind was stately ; every conception was colossal , and his per- formances were mighty . From magnificent destruction he ...
... Persian Basileus ; a huge magnifying - glass seemed to be ever before his mental vision . Every movement of his mind was stately ; every conception was colossal , and his per- formances were mighty . From magnificent destruction he ...
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... Persia . Moreover , his camp was like that strange one of Cromwell , wherein was neither swearing , drinking , nor gambling ; but a host of fanatics assembled at the matin and the vesper hours to hear prayers and exhortations from the ...
... Persia . Moreover , his camp was like that strange one of Cromwell , wherein was neither swearing , drinking , nor gambling ; but a host of fanatics assembled at the matin and the vesper hours to hear prayers and exhortations from the ...
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... Persian conqueror , to whom some of his admirers once compared him , though rather prematurely . This time he does not appear on the canvas as the guiding genius of the Atlantic telegraph ; his attitude is more suggestive of the less ...
... Persian conqueror , to whom some of his admirers once compared him , though rather prematurely . This time he does not appear on the canvas as the guiding genius of the Atlantic telegraph ; his attitude is more suggestive of the less ...
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... PERSIANS .. 1. The Works of Sir William Jones . 2. Institutiones Lingua Persica cum sanscrita et Zendica comparata . J. A. VILLIERS . 3. Grammatik der lebenden Persischen Sprache . 4. A Grammar of the Persian Language . By DUNCAN FORBES ...
... PERSIANS .. 1. The Works of Sir William Jones . 2. Institutiones Lingua Persica cum sanscrita et Zendica comparata . J. A. VILLIERS . 3. Grammatik der lebenden Persischen Sprache . 4. A Grammar of the Persian Language . By DUNCAN FORBES ...
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Page 16 - For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapt in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a...
Page 14 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 261 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 253 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 259 - But why then publish ? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield, read; Even mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
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Page 19 - Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 268 - A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith By his Daughter, LADY HOLLAND. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by MRS. AUSTIN.
Page 15 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years...
Page 403 - Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working -to a common result...