Retrospective Review, Volume 7Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1823 - Bibliography |
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... Lucretius , since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God , Thomas ( Sprat , ) Lord Bishop of Rochester . 1709 . In a former number , when we were attempting , with the aid of Defoe , to give a picture of London under ...
... Lucretius , since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God , Thomas ( Sprat , ) Lord Bishop of Rochester . 1709 . In a former number , when we were attempting , with the aid of Defoe , to give a picture of London under ...
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... Lucretius observed the richness of the materials , and worked them into his poem , On the Nature of Things . Virgil wrote a rival descrip- tion of a plague among cattle , in the Georgics ; and Ovid has made use of some characteristic ...
... Lucretius observed the richness of the materials , and worked them into his poem , On the Nature of Things . Virgil wrote a rival descrip- tion of a plague among cattle , in the Georgics ; and Ovid has made use of some characteristic ...
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... Lucretius by no means an easy one . For he was the first who ennobled perspirations , diarrhoea , blanes , convulsion , and delirium , and taught disease the secret of harmony and rhythm . A catalogue of symptoms , though interesting ...
... Lucretius by no means an easy one . For he was the first who ennobled perspirations , diarrhoea , blanes , convulsion , and delirium , and taught disease the secret of harmony and rhythm . A catalogue of symptoms , though interesting ...
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... Lucretius , vi . 1176 . This is a very accurate and impressive enumeration of the symptoms which precede the fatal termination of the disorder , " Nor e'er relaxed the sickness : the rack'd frame Lay all exhausting , and , in silence ...
... Lucretius , vi . 1176 . This is a very accurate and impressive enumeration of the symptoms which precede the fatal termination of the disorder , " Nor e'er relaxed the sickness : the rack'd frame Lay all exhausting , and , in silence ...
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... Lucretius on the plague , poetry is wanting , the ennobling , embalming , sanctifying touches of the poet's ima- gination . He has succeeded in sustaining the dignity of his subject , and that seems to be all ; but who has done this ...
... Lucretius on the plague , poetry is wanting , the ennobling , embalming , sanctifying touches of the poet's ima- gination . He has succeeded in sustaining the dignity of his subject , and that seems to be all ; but who has done this ...
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Page 403 - As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring...
Page 395 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 396 - When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 392 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 404 - He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need : If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Page 396 - Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine, With all triumphant splendour on my brow; But out! alack! he was but one hour mine, The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; Suns of the world may stain when...
Page 394 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 383 - In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone.
Page 6 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery ? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Page 384 - Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.