The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Literature, Modern |
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... islands . The subjects treated by the cyclic writers , were the circle of mytho- logy , and the events of the Trojan war , related in the order in which they occurred . Arctinus the Milesian was the author of a poem en- titled the ...
... islands . The subjects treated by the cyclic writers , were the circle of mytho- logy , and the events of the Trojan war , related in the order in which they occurred . Arctinus the Milesian was the author of a poem en- titled the ...
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... islands of the Archipe- lago , to examine their ruins , to discover ancient manuscripts , and search the libraries of the monasteries . Those of the convents of Pathmos , Amorgos , and Metelin , particularly attracted his attention , 25 ...
... islands of the Archipe- lago , to examine their ruins , to discover ancient manuscripts , and search the libraries of the monasteries . Those of the convents of Pathmos , Amorgos , and Metelin , particularly attracted his attention , 25 ...
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... islands . M. de Villoison , in announcing this vast plan , which embraced the whole state of ancient , compared with that of modern Greece , stated that the work , independently of the general interest which it might possess , would ...
... islands . M. de Villoison , in announcing this vast plan , which embraced the whole state of ancient , compared with that of modern Greece , stated that the work , independently of the general interest which it might possess , would ...
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... island , the result of which will be published , in a Description of Great Britain , to be printed in numbers with illustrative plates : the whole to make at least 6 vols . in 8vo . The first volume of Bibliotheca Graca , in 8vo ...
... island , the result of which will be published , in a Description of Great Britain , to be printed in numbers with illustrative plates : the whole to make at least 6 vols . in 8vo . The first volume of Bibliotheca Graca , in 8vo ...
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... Islands of Orkney and Shetland ; with a View chiefly to Objects of Natural History ; but including also Occasional Remarks on the State of the Inhabitants , their Husbandry , and Fisheries . By ' Patrick Neill , A. M. Secretary to the ...
... Islands of Orkney and Shetland ; with a View chiefly to Objects of Natural History ; but including also Occasional Remarks on the State of the Inhabitants , their Husbandry , and Fisheries . By ' Patrick Neill , A. M. Secretary to the ...
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Page 255 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 459 - Morpheus' train. But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...
Page 110 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, " that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true;" for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Page 66 - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Page 55 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
Page 105 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Page 449 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Page 508 - Biblicse, being a connected, serins of Notes on the Text and Literary History of the Bibles or Sacred Books of the Jews and Christians, and on the Bibles or Books accounted Sacred by the Mahometans, Hindus, Parsees, Chinese, and Scandinavians.
Page 465 - ... made to them, but they fled in such order into the woods, that it booted them not to follow : so going on their way forward till they came to a river, which they could not...