The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... it probably derived its name . It is said to have been translated or imitated by the Roman poet Nævius , under the title of Cypria Ilias . Lesches Lesches the Lesbian is the reputed author of the Little 36 [ Jan. ON THE CYCLIC.
... it probably derived its name . It is said to have been translated or imitated by the Roman poet Nævius , under the title of Cypria Ilias . Lesches Lesches the Lesbian is the reputed author of the Little 36 [ Jan. ON THE CYCLIC.
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... translations which I propose occasionally to intersperse among them , I shall follow the chronological mode already adopted by me in my former publication , beginning , indeed , with Meleager , who , though far from the first in point ...
... translations which I propose occasionally to intersperse among them , I shall follow the chronological mode already adopted by me in my former publication , beginning , indeed , with Meleager , who , though far from the first in point ...
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... Translations from the Greek Antho- logy . " The exquisite poem of which I have endeavoured to produce a faint resemblance at the commencement of the above - mentioned volume , * requires some farther explanation than I have given in the ...
... Translations from the Greek Antho- logy . " The exquisite poem of which I have endeavoured to produce a faint resemblance at the commencement of the above - mentioned volume , * requires some farther explanation than I have given in the ...
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... translated from Anyte . The same motive which inclined me to insert those in my late publica- tion , that of the curiosity attached to them by way of specimens , urges me now to add to them one of the compositions of Nossis , by no ...
... translated from Anyte . The same motive which inclined me to insert those in my late publica- tion , that of the curiosity attached to them by way of specimens , urges me now to add to them one of the compositions of Nossis , by no ...
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... translated both into French and English . His dis- courses are less known than these , even in Asia ; and I know not of a manuscript copy of them in any European library . I read them in the Calcutta edition of this Persian sage , and ...
... translated both into French and English . His dis- courses are less known than these , even in Asia ; and I know not of a manuscript copy of them in any European library . I read them in the Calcutta edition of this Persian sage , and ...
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Page 479 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Page 508 - Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown ? The crown has not power enough. When I say that all governments are alike, I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Page 249 - ... such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them; and I esteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing than of acting what Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander.
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Page 320 - ... God the searcher of all hearts, take thee CD, for my wedded Wife ; and do also in the presence of God, and before these witnesses, promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful Husband.
Page 94 - The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen of the University who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation ; and the other two for such as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years. Sir Roger...
Page 508 - ... For my own particular, the more I ruminate upon it the more it astonisheth my imagination and shaketh all the cells of my brain, so that sometimes I struggle with my faith and have much ado to believe it yet. I shall give over...
Page 250 - You feel, by the emptiness and deadness of them, that you converse with some dreaming pedant with his elbow on his desk; not with an active, ambitious tyrant, with his hand on his sword, commanding a million of subjects.