Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 50John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 - American periodicals |
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... of the most striking incidents of classic story with considerable success . Dr. Moberly , in his Stories from Herodotus , and the late Mr. W. Adams , in his Fall of Croesus 40 [ May , IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE .
... of the most striking incidents of classic story with considerable success . Dr. Moberly , in his Stories from Herodotus , and the late Mr. W. Adams , in his Fall of Croesus 40 [ May , IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE .
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... Herodotus to that of Macau- lay , and to represent the historian who invents a new mode of stating facts as a mere romancer . These accusations will soon be forgotten ; and we shall see only the perfect honesty of the man , the bril ...
... Herodotus to that of Macau- lay , and to represent the historian who invents a new mode of stating facts as a mere romancer . These accusations will soon be forgotten ; and we shall see only the perfect honesty of the man , the bril ...
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... Herodotus's Ethiopian and the fagot of Mr. Erskine's Indian expressed at once rare imagery * M . Tullii Ciceronis de claris Oratoribus Liber , aliter Brutus ; ex recensione ERNESTI . London . VOL . L.-NO. 2 and sound logic . They were ...
... Herodotus's Ethiopian and the fagot of Mr. Erskine's Indian expressed at once rare imagery * M . Tullii Ciceronis de claris Oratoribus Liber , aliter Brutus ; ex recensione ERNESTI . London . VOL . L.-NO. 2 and sound logic . They were ...
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... Herodotus . Nor indeed does the gossip of Xenophon strike our ear with such inconsistency as that of Herodotus . Xenophon's work is a personal memoir , not a history . Dia- logue in such a work can hardly be open to the same objections ...
... Herodotus . Nor indeed does the gossip of Xenophon strike our ear with such inconsistency as that of Herodotus . Xenophon's work is a personal memoir , not a history . Dia- logue in such a work can hardly be open to the same objections ...
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... Herodotus the colloquy is generally singularly characteristic and to the pur- pose . No part of the dialogue is foreign to the text . It is never out of place , and , instead of fitting clumsily into the narrative , it really forms an ...
... Herodotus the colloquy is generally singularly characteristic and to the pur- pose . No part of the dialogue is foreign to the text . It is never out of place , and , instead of fitting clumsily into the narrative , it really forms an ...
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Page 48 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line: For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks!
Page 298 - But, hark! the cry is Astur: And lo ! the ranks divide ; And the great lord of Luna Comes with his stately stride. Upon his ample shoulders Clangs loud the fourfold shield, And in his hand he shakes the brand Which none but he can wield.
Page 2 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 44 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 525 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 474 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 539 - God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 298 - Then, whirling up his broadsword With both hands to the height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow: The blow, though turned, came yet too nigh; It missed his helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow.
Page 535 - Thou madst us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee ! ' You are beginning to understand that St.
Page 5 - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.