Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen30W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 |
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Página 95
... Achilles . Achilles , as was to be ex- pected , kindles into rage at this de- mand ; reproaches him for his ra- pacity and insolence , and , after giving him many hard names , so- lemnly swears , that , if he is to be thus treated by ...
... Achilles . Achilles , as was to be ex- pected , kindles into rage at this de- mand ; reproaches him for his ra- pacity and insolence , and , after giving him many hard names , so- lemnly swears , that , if he is to be thus treated by ...
Página 96
... Achilles was the slave . captived the invincible - hung chains round his neck , which to strive to break would have been the vainest madness - the arrow of Paris , it is fabled , smote the only vulnerable spot of the hero - his heel ...
... Achilles was the slave . captived the invincible - hung chains round his neck , which to strive to break would have been the vainest madness - the arrow of Paris , it is fabled , smote the only vulnerable spot of the hero - his heel ...
Página 97
... Achilles , who was not a person to play upon with impunity , the quar- rel would at least have been natural , and so would the opening of the Iliad ; in which case , perhaps , we might have dispensed with the dig- nity , just as we do ...
... Achilles , who was not a person to play upon with impunity , the quar- rel would at least have been natural , and so would the opening of the Iliad ; in which case , perhaps , we might have dispensed with the dig- nity , just as we do ...
Página 98
... Achilles for sake of a female slave , Briseis , is conversant about the middle with his furious grief for loss of a male friend , Patroclus , draws to a close with the lamentations of two old people , Hecuba and Priam , and ends with ...
... Achilles for sake of a female slave , Briseis , is conversant about the middle with his furious grief for loss of a male friend , Patroclus , draws to a close with the lamentations of two old people , Hecuba and Priam , and ends with ...
Página 99
... Achilles - an ap- parition , who vanished from our bo- dily eyes in the first , although he continued to move through the suc- ceeding seven - and especially in the sixth - before those of our imagina- tion . A night - scene in Homer ...
... Achilles - an ap- parition , who vanished from our bo- dily eyes in the first , although he continued to move through the suc- ceeding seven - and especially in the sixth - before those of our imagina- tion . A night - scene in Homer ...
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Página 571 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Página 519 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 518 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 92 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 369 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Página 369 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 45 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Página 344 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 343 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Página 571 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.