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... Italy , and that the Scylla and Charybdis of Homer are the same as the Scylla and Charybdis of the moderns . We cannot , however , avoid suspecting the correctness of these opinions , since , to suppose them true , not only involves the ...
... Italy , and that the Scylla and Charybdis of Homer are the same as the Scylla and Charybdis of the moderns . We cannot , however , avoid suspecting the correctness of these opinions , since , to suppose them true , not only involves the ...
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... Italy , they are sufficient to prove that her abode , when she was left by Ulysses , was near the eastern shores of the Black Sea . Besides , this idea receives additional confirmation from the epi- thet which is given by Homer to the ...
... Italy , they are sufficient to prove that her abode , when she was left by Ulysses , was near the eastern shores of the Black Sea . Besides , this idea receives additional confirmation from the epi- thet which is given by Homer to the ...
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... Italy . Nothing can be more natural , than for emigrants to affix the local appellations to which they had been accustomed in their native land , to corresponding places in the country to which they have removed ; and though the modern ...
... Italy . Nothing can be more natural , than for emigrants to affix the local appellations to which they had been accustomed in their native land , to corresponding places in the country to which they have removed ; and though the modern ...
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... Italian army , Napoleon had , on the second day , pushed on his advanced guard , instead of making an oblique move- ment to regain the Moscow and Smolensk road , the whole Russian army , in obedience to the orders already given , would ...
... Italian army , Napoleon had , on the second day , pushed on his advanced guard , instead of making an oblique move- ment to regain the Moscow and Smolensk road , the whole Russian army , in obedience to the orders already given , would ...
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... Italy , with which she introduces herself , we consider eminently beau- tiful : I am a daughter of that land , Where the poet's lip and the painter's hand Are most divine - where earth and sky Are picture both and poetry . I am of ...
... Italy , with which she introduces herself , we consider eminently beau- tiful : I am a daughter of that land , Where the poet's lip and the painter's hand Are most divine - where earth and sky Are picture both and poetry . I am of ...
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Página 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Página 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Página 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Página 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Página 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Página 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Página 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Página 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o