The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, المجلد 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... poets fail during any period of the classic ages of Greece , so that their dialect became as much consecrated to the ... poets of Sicily . Many of the lyric poets having employed this language , it was in imitation of them adopted in the ...
... poets fail during any period of the classic ages of Greece , so that their dialect became as much consecrated to the ... poets of Sicily . Many of the lyric poets having employed this language , it was in imitation of them adopted in the ...
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... poems of Homer , as was first indicated by the sagacity of Bentley , sufficiently shew that it was anciently employed also by the Ionians . It seems in fact to have been originally nothing more than the Vau of the Orientals , and like ...
... poems of Homer , as was first indicated by the sagacity of Bentley , sufficiently shew that it was anciently employed also by the Ionians . It seems in fact to have been originally nothing more than the Vau of the Orientals , and like ...
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... poems of Homer , complex yet regular in the structure of their lan- guage , rich in their stores of expression , and ... poem en- titled the Aethiopis , celebrating the exploits of Memnon , the son of Aurora . Lesches the Lesbian wrote a ...
... poems of Homer , complex yet regular in the structure of their lan- guage , rich in their stores of expression , and ... poem en- titled the Aethiopis , celebrating the exploits of Memnon , the son of Aurora . Lesches the Lesbian wrote a ...
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... poem under the name of the latter is probably spurious , and that of the former much interpolated . Xenophanes , Parmenides , and Empedocles wrote philosophical poems ; but it is probable that didactic poetry did not attain its ...
... poem under the name of the latter is probably spurious , and that of the former much interpolated . Xenophanes , Parmenides , and Empedocles wrote philosophical poems ; but it is probable that didactic poetry did not attain its ...
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... etry ; and perverting the critical marks affixed to a great number of verse in the Iliad , in support of the daring position , that parts of this poem , even entire books , were the work this 1807. ] 33 M. DE VILLOISON .
... etry ; and perverting the critical marks affixed to a great number of verse in the Iliad , in support of the daring position , that parts of this poem , even entire books , were the work this 1807. ] 33 M. DE VILLOISON .
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الصفحة 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
الصفحة 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
الصفحة 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
الصفحة 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
الصفحة 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
الصفحة 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
الصفحة 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
الصفحة 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
الصفحة 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.