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... enemies of original genius , ever ready to assail it , united their forces , and Montesquieu was soon the object of repeated and envenomed attacks . It was said that , to establish certain favourite theories , he availed himself of the ...
... enemies of original genius , ever ready to assail it , united their forces , and Montesquieu was soon the object of repeated and envenomed attacks . It was said that , to establish certain favourite theories , he availed himself of the ...
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... enemies . " What pleases me in my defence is not so much , " said he , " to have floored the ecclesiastics , but to have let them fall so gently . " Posterity will find a more valu- able charm in this little production : it is , that ...
... enemies . " What pleases me in my defence is not so much , " said he , " to have floored the ecclesiastics , but to have let them fall so gently . " Posterity will find a more valu- able charm in this little production : it is , that ...
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... enemy of all the existing rulers in the world of taste . Even Jeffrey seriously lamented , in one of his first reviews of Scott's poems , that he should have identified himself with the unpicturesque and expiring images of feudality ...
... enemy of all the existing rulers in the world of taste . Even Jeffrey seriously lamented , in one of his first reviews of Scott's poems , that he should have identified himself with the unpicturesque and expiring images of feudality ...
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... enemy into the territory of Rome . Accordingly , that terri- tory was plundered year after year ; and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained , yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in ...
... enemy into the territory of Rome . Accordingly , that terri- tory was plundered year after year ; and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained , yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in ...
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... enemy . " Finally , in order to prevent the decrees of the senate from being tam- pered with by the patricians , Horatius and Valerius began the practice of having them carried to the temple of Ceres on the Aventine , and there laid up ...
... enemy . " Finally , in order to prevent the decrees of the senate from being tam- pered with by the patricians , Horatius and Valerius began the practice of having them carried to the temple of Ceres on the Aventine , and there laid up ...
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Página 671 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 345 - Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome.
Página 182 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!
Página 166 - The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But where is County Guy ? " The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear ; To beauty shy, by lattice...
Página 45 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, This chief transcends his father's fame': While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Página 56 - Here sighs, with lamentations and loud moans, Resounded through the air pierced by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that forever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies.
Página 46 - This chief transcends his father's fame :" While pleased, amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy.' He spoke, and fondly gazing on her charms, Restored the pleasing burden to her arms ; Soft on her fragrant breast the babe she laid, Hush'd to repose, and with a smile survey'd. The troubled pleasure soon chastised by fear, She mingled with a smile a tender tear.
Página 49 - Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And...
Página 61 - I have, indeed, been a vessel without sail and without steerage, carried about to divers ports, and roads, and shores, by the dry wind that springs out of sad poverty...
Página 49 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...