The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 28-29T. Foster, 1842 - Books |
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... reign Reviewers , were we to permit the Eng- Demosthenes ) , Thirlwall's Greece , who has lish public , through this journal , its only pure availed himself of the German sources to such medium of information on such topics , to re- an ...
... reign Reviewers , were we to permit the Eng- Demosthenes ) , Thirlwall's Greece , who has lish public , through this journal , its only pure availed himself of the German sources to such medium of information on such topics , to re- an ...
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... reign . So narrow an escape have our tablets made from utter destruction , that they were only written two years before his death . Nothing in wax equals their antiquity . Of tablets in this material we possess some , but or , according ...
... reign . So narrow an escape have our tablets made from utter destruction , that they were only written two years before his death . Nothing in wax equals their antiquity . Of tablets in this material we possess some , but or , according ...
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... reign of Severus and Caracalla , A. D. 174 , in which , towards the end , we find the words " dolum huic rei abesse afuturumque . " The word " cautio " also occurs in these tablets , a very common juridical expression , for the full ...
... reign of Severus and Caracalla , A. D. 174 , in which , towards the end , we find the words " dolum huic rei abesse afuturumque . " The word " cautio " also occurs in these tablets , a very common juridical expression , for the full ...
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... reign of A. Severus , a Prĉses Gruter , & c . , and has drawn into one mass Moesiĉ , Menophilus , when the Goths invaded every possible institution to which the name that country . Valerius and Julius sufficiently " Collegium " could be ...
... reign of A. Severus , a Prĉses Gruter , & c . , and has drawn into one mass Moesiĉ , Menophilus , when the Goths invaded every possible institution to which the name that country . Valerius and Julius sufficiently " Collegium " could be ...
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... reign , he would not offer any opposition ; nor was there any improbability in this assertion , for his piety was exactly of this external kind . now die in peace , having been permitted to On the other hand it would not be difficult ...
... reign , he would not offer any opposition ; nor was there any improbability in this assertion , for his piety was exactly of this external kind . now die in peace , having been permitted to On the other hand it would not be difficult ...
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Page 93 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 188 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 186 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 188 - Of hippogrif, bore through the air sublime, Over the wilderness and o'er the plain; Till underneath them fair Jerusalem, The holy city, lifted high her towers, And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, topt with golden spires...
Page 186 - Let that come when it comes ; all hope is lost Of my reception into grace ; what worse ? For where no hope is left, is left no fear : If there be worse, the expectation more Of worse torments me than the feeling can. I would be at the worst, worst is my port, My harbour, and my ultimate repose ; The end I would attain, my final good.
Page 274 - Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Page 135 - I speak to Time and to Eternity, Of which I grow a portion, not to man. Ye elements ! in which to be resolved I hasten, let my voice be as a spirit Upon you ! Ye blue waves ! which bore my banner, Ye winds ! which...
Page 187 - Yes, thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see That man hath yet a soul, and dare be free. A little while, along thy saddening plains, The starless night of desolation reigns : Truth shall restore the light by Nature given, And, like Prometheus, bring the fire of heaven. Prone to the dust Oppression shall be hurled ; Her name, her nature, withered from the world.
Page 166 - Diones inter crinigeras situm catervas et Germanica verba sustinentem, laudantem tetrico subinde vultu quod Burgundio cantat esculentus, infundens acido comam butyro...
Page 252 - look forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.