The Classical Journal, Volume 20A.J. Valpy, 1819 - Classical philology |
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... never failed of publication on the last days the Quarter , so as to be ready for the 1st of January , April , Jul and October . Our Readers will therefore know to whom attribute any delay . The Story of the Trojan Horse , considered as a.
... never failed of publication on the last days the Quarter , so as to be ready for the 1st of January , April , Jul and October . Our Readers will therefore know to whom attribute any delay . The Story of the Trojan Horse , considered as a.
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... never existed , we should have no interest in the heroic Godfrey , or the good Raymond : if the wood had not been cut down by the crusaders , we should have thought the poet was raving when he described the enchantments employed to ...
... never existed , we should have no interest in the heroic Godfrey , or the good Raymond : if the wood had not been cut down by the crusaders , we should have thought the poet was raving when he described the enchantments employed to ...
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... never could have invented what Homer must be supposed to have done , if the " tale of Troy divine was not founded on fact . Its interna evidence , in short , appears to decide the controversy . Many instances , in which these ...
... never could have invented what Homer must be supposed to have done , if the " tale of Troy divine was not founded on fact . Its interna evidence , in short , appears to decide the controversy . Many instances , in which these ...
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... never could be captured ; but to prevent the possibility of its removal , the Greeks had framed it of this enormous size . The most incredulous are convinced of the truth of this story by the fate of Laocoon , and the horse is received ...
... never could be captured ; but to prevent the possibility of its removal , the Greeks had framed it of this enormous size . The most incredulous are convinced of the truth of this story by the fate of Laocoon , and the horse is received ...
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... never to be used at the conclusion of a line , when the next line begins with a vowel . This rule is deduced from the practice of Horace , and with sufficient correctness ; it is however observable , that Horace seldom concludes an ...
... never to be used at the conclusion of a line , when the next line begins with a vowel . This rule is deduced from the practice of Horace , and with sufficient correctness ; it is however observable , that Horace seldom concludes an ...
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Page 133 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 357 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 384 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than " that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the " harmony of the world; all things in heaven and " earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her " care, and the greatest as not exempted from her " power, both angels and men, and creatures of " what condition soever, though each in different " sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, ad" miring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 180 - David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 356 - His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 381 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 357 - Methinks I see her, like the mighty eagle, renewing her immortal youth, and purging her opening sight at the unobstructed beams of our benign meridian SUN, which some pretend to say had been dazzled and abused by an inglorious pestilential METEOR ; while the ill-affected birds of night would, with their envious hootings, prognosticate a length of darkness and decay.
Page 393 - Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Page 356 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 18 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.