The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears, Volym 21Edward Isidore Sears 1870 |
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... beautiful Grecian statues decapitated and his own head put upon them . Claudius had the head of Augustus put on the statues of Alexander the Great ; and Nero caused the famous statue of that hero , by Lysippus , to " be gilded . The ...
... beautiful Grecian statues decapitated and his own head put upon them . Claudius had the head of Augustus put on the statues of Alexander the Great ; and Nero caused the famous statue of that hero , by Lysippus , to " be gilded . The ...
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... beautiful grained arches of the middle ages . The dimensions of the churches were also greatly enlarged in the fifth and sixth centuries , and they were made more lofty and capacious . Instead of the columns directly supporting the roof ...
... beautiful grained arches of the middle ages . The dimensions of the churches were also greatly enlarged in the fifth and sixth centuries , and they were made more lofty and capacious . Instead of the columns directly supporting the roof ...
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... beautiful qualities of his character . Never has a man been so universally beloved and revered in Germany ; and I never heard or read his name mentioned without demonstrations of respect and declarations of sincerest affection . ” + ...
... beautiful qualities of his character . Never has a man been so universally beloved and revered in Germany ; and I never heard or read his name mentioned without demonstrations of respect and declarations of sincerest affection . ” + ...
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... beautiful harbor , is by no means calculated to give the stranger an adequate idea of the lavish hand with which nature has adorned both the hills and valleys of Erin . But looking around at the somewhat famous “ Great Island ” which ...
... beautiful harbor , is by no means calculated to give the stranger an adequate idea of the lavish hand with which nature has adorned both the hills and valleys of Erin . But looking around at the somewhat famous “ Great Island ” which ...
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... beautiful as it undoubtedly is , and think how much more pleasant it would be to travel in an American car , where one can at least see interesting people around him , even if he has not the pleasure of conversing with them . While thus ...
... beautiful as it undoubtedly is , and think how much more pleasant it would be to travel in an American car , where one can at least see interesting people around him , even if he has not the pleasure of conversing with them . While thus ...
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Sida 18 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Sida 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Sida 145 - The good old sire the first prepared to go To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wished for worlds beyond the grave.
Sida 88 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean- — ne'er be found.
Sida 336 - Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung ; Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ.
Sida 288 - Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
Sida 229 - The merit of this prince, both in private and public life, may with advantage be set in opposition to that of any monarch or citizen which the annals of any age or any nation can present to us. He seems, indeed, to be the model of that perfect character, which, under the denomination of a sage or wise man, philosophers have been fond of delineating, rather as a fiction of their imagination, than in hopes of ever seeing it really existing...
Sida 248 - ... moment, — the most brilliant, the most enviable, in short, a thing of which no example is to be found in past times ; at...
Sida 77 - ... demons. From this yawning cave the devils themselves constantly ascended to delight and to instruct the spectators: — to delight, because they were usually the greatest jesters and buffoons that then appeared ; and to instruct, for that they treated the wretched mortals who were delivered to them with the utmost cruelty, warning thereby all men carefully to avoid the falling into the clutches of such hardened and remorseless spirits.
Sida 94 - ... sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...