Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 - 586 pages |
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Page vi
... mere copy of the Milan Ed . of 1474. This latter edition I have never seen , and am acquainted with only through its Variantes as cited by Maittaire ; but having compared those Va- riantes with the Modena Ed . I find sufficient discre ...
... mere copy of the Milan Ed . of 1474. This latter edition I have never seen , and am acquainted with only through its Variantes as cited by Maittaire ; but having compared those Va- riantes with the Modena Ed . I find sufficient discre ...
Page viii
... merely of all literary taste , but all literary judgment . In 1846 , I became acquainted with Phil . E. Wagner , at Dresden . I had for four years such intimacy with him as it was possible to have with a man , who however unreserved and ...
... merely of all literary taste , but all literary judgment . In 1846 , I became acquainted with Phil . E. Wagner , at Dresden . I had for four years such intimacy with him as it was possible to have with a man , who however unreserved and ...
Page xi
... mere grammatical , and not even grammatical , nugae ; learned dust which were better swept out . § III . Some further particulars relating to this Voyage , to my Six Photographs of the Heroic Times , and to myself . I have been , as the ...
... mere grammatical , and not even grammatical , nugae ; learned dust which were better swept out . § III . Some further particulars relating to this Voyage , to my Six Photographs of the Heroic Times , and to myself . I have been , as the ...
Page xii
... mere accident as must occasionally occur in a work of such extensive research . I have even been careful not to quote ( unless where I have had new matter to bring forward respecting it ) any parallel or illustrative passage which has ...
... mere accident as must occasionally occur in a work of such extensive research . I have even been careful not to quote ( unless where I have had new matter to bring forward respecting it ) any parallel or illustrative passage which has ...
Page xiv
... merely for the sake of preventing the reader's ear from being palled by the long continuance of any one measure . I was the more encouraged to adopt this principle , from having observed the enlivening effect of Shakespeare's ...
... merely for the sake of preventing the reader's ear from being palled by the long continuance of any one measure . I was the more encouraged to adopt this principle , from having observed the enlivening effect of Shakespeare's ...
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Page 9 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 45 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Page 45 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow. Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
Page 88 - ... vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrhus exsultat telis et luce coruscus aena 470 qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina pastus, frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat, nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque iuventa, lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga arduus ad solem, et linguis micat ore trisulcis...
Page 17 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna : Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra luppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
Page 92 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 45 - Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.
Page 102 - Notre chair change bientôt de nature : notre corps prend un autre nom; même celui de cadavre, dit Tertullien, parce qu'il nous montre encore quelque forme humaine, ne lui demeure pas longtemps : il devient un je ne sais quoi, qui n'a plus de nom dans aucune langue...
Page 44 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 50 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest Mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...