New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 114Henry Colburn, 1858 |
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Page 299 - And art thou then that Virgil, that well-spring, From which such copious floods of eloquence Have issued ? " I with front abash'd replied. " Glory and light of all the tuneful train ! May it avail me, that I long with zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense Have conn'd it o'er. My master thou, and guide ! Thou he from whom alone I have derived That style, which for its beauty into fame Exalts me. See the beast, from whom I fled. O save me from her, thou illustrious sage ! For every vein...
Page 268 - Hompesch" the records name him) enters the shop ; wants " a stout chest, with lock on it, for household purposes; must be of such and such dimensions, six feet six in length especially, and that is an indispensable point — in fact, it will be longer than yourself, I think, Herr Zimmermann ; what is the cost; when can it be ready 1" Cost, time, and the rest are settled.
Page 107 - Elated with such feelings, I set out the next morning, at an early hour; and after a march of a little less than two hours, through a rocky wilderness covered with dense bushes, I obtained the first sight of the river, and in less than an hour more, during which I was in constant sight of this noble spectacle, I reached the place of embarkation, opposite the town of Say.
Page 104 - She loved him for the dangers he had passed, And he loved her that she did pity them.
Page 418 - Herodotus),1 with that of an inspired teacher, prophet, and worker of miracles, — approaching to and sometimes even confounded with the gods, — and employing all these gifts to found a new special order of brethren bound together by religious rites and observances peculiar to themselves. In his prominent vocation, analogous to that of Epimenides, Orpheus, or Melampus, he appears as the revealer of a mode of life calculated to raise his disciples above the level of mankind, and to recommend them...
Page 419 - This is the same character, looked at from the different points of view of the believer and the unbeliever. There is, however, no reason for regarding Pythagoras as an impostor, because experience seems to show, that while in certain ages it is not difficult for a man to persuade others that he is inspired, it is still less difficult for him to contract the same belief himself. Looking at the general type of Pythagoras, as conceived by witnesses in and nearest to his own age, — Xenophanes, Herckleitus,...
Page 418 - Mankind love to be cheated: thus the men of genius who have not disappointed the world in their externals, and in what I shall term the management of self, have always played a part, — they have kept alive the vulgar wonder by tricks suited to the vulgar understanding, — they have measured their conduct by device and artifice, — and have walked the paths of life in the garments of the stage.
Page 131 - Antoinette being placed without the pale of public affairs, and being kept at a distance from the throne and state. Unfortunately, the enmity of the aunts and the policy of the minister were seconded by the domestic relations of the king and queen. There was at that epoch little or no sympathy, assuredly no love, between them. Poor Marie Antoinette, when reproached for riding on horseback, would reply, " Au nom de Dieu! laissez-moi en paix, et sachez que je ne compromets aucun...
Page 301 - ... better than ridiculous. Or rather, he sang not to Romans but to their Emperor ; he had to bear in mind, not the great fountains of emotion in the human heart, but his town-house on the Esquiline, and his country-house on the road from Naples to Pozzuoli. In dealing with Greeks, with Trojans, with Carthaginians, he again lost Homer's double advantage: he had nothing to give a healthy stimulus to his imagination, and nothing to bring him or to keep him to the standard of truth and nature. And here,...
Page 68 - 89, and organized by the Emperor, is to be still your own, proclaim it by sanctioning the powers which I ask from you. " Then France and Europe will be preserved from anarchy, obstacles will be removed, rivalries will have disappeared, for all will respect, in the decision of the People, the decree of Providence. " Given at the Palace of the Elysee, 2nd December, 1851.