An Introduction to the Writing of Greek, in Two Parts: For the Use of Winchester College, Teil 1at the University Press, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 - 298 Seiten |
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Seite 236 - Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. . But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the fpoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury reprefs'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul.
Seite 278 - Tis folly to be wise. 287 HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
Seite 253 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Seite 274 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone And brute, as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright, with front serene, Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous, to correspond with heaven...
Seite 275 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God Supreme, who made him chief Of all his works : therefore the Omnipotent Eternal Father (for where is not He Present ?) thus to his Son audibly spake.
Seite 237 - Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blufh unfeen, And wafte its fweetnefs on the defart air.
Seite 270 - Man ftudy fuch a fcience; and that Man, another — Thus the whole Cycle (as you call it) may be carried eafily into Perfection.
Seite 263 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Seite 209 - C. 14, not oppofition ; and the /«' that precedes, as it always does, does no more than let you know that fomething different is to follow, but which has a connection with what went before. The Greeks too have many particles, which appear to a perfon not well acquainted with the language to be mere expletives.
Seite 292 - Firdausi was the Cyrus of the first Greek historian, and the hero of the oldest political and moral romance, when I doubt that Louis Quatorze and Lewis the Fourteenth were one and the same French King.