Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen30W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 |
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Página 95
... Briseis the slave of 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 ...
... Briseis the slave of 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 ...
Página 96
... Briseis a female slave ? The Professor should have said a seraph . Briseis The Doctor forgot that the loss of a mistress is sadly felt by a general on foreign service . Had Agamemnon been at Argos , he might not - though there is no ...
... Briseis a female slave ? The Professor should have said a seraph . Briseis The Doctor forgot that the loss of a mistress is sadly felt by a general on foreign service . Had Agamemnon been at Argos , he might not - though there is no ...
Página 97
had Briseis been a negro , and Achil- les so capricious as to prefer her black but comely to paler beauties , the quarrel consequent on her vio- lent abreption from his arms by the mandate of Agamemnon , might not have given the opening ...
had Briseis been a negro , and Achil- les so capricious as to prefer her black but comely to paler beauties , the quarrel consequent on her vio- lent abreption from his arms by the mandate of Agamemnon , might not have given the opening ...
Página 98
... 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 the funeral rites of Hector the Tamer of ...
... 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 the funeral rites of Hector the Tamer of ...
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... Briseis Thou didst go and take away from the tent of the enraged Achilles . Not indeed according to my counsel ; for greatly indeed thee did I for my part With many words dissuade ; but thou to thy mighty spirit Giving way , the bravest ...
... Briseis Thou didst go and take away from the tent of the enraged Achilles . Not indeed according to my counsel ; for greatly indeed thee did I for my part With many words dissuade ; but thou to thy mighty spirit Giving way , the bravest ...
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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.