A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama in Ten ScenesSaunders and Otley, 1842 - 156 Seiten |
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... great Master , I have endeavoured to animate my characters with those common feelings of humanity which have been acknowledged in every age and * Terence . climate by mankind , however restricted by the influ- ences PREFACE . ix.
... great Master , I have endeavoured to animate my characters with those common feelings of humanity which have been acknowledged in every age and * Terence . climate by mankind , however restricted by the influ- ences PREFACE . ix.
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... common eye , is naturally alluded to in the Drama . The Prometheus of Eschylus ranks not only among the loftiest , but is also the most purely intel- lectual poem in the world . In the spectacle of intel- lectual energy defying and ...
... common eye , is naturally alluded to in the Drama . The Prometheus of Eschylus ranks not only among the loftiest , but is also the most purely intel- lectual poem in the world . In the spectacle of intel- lectual energy defying and ...
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... common with my poet brethren , that Poetry , in its highest walk , had become extinct , or , in other words , out of date , and its altar altogether desecrated ; that even the advan- tages of criticism were neutralised ; its daily habit ...
... common with my poet brethren , that Poetry , in its highest walk , had become extinct , or , in other words , out of date , and its altar altogether desecrated ; that even the advan- tages of criticism were neutralised ; its daily habit ...
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... common in the higher walks of life than is generally imagined ; but its funestal moral influences were never before , I believe , held up by the poet or moralist . In these last publications , however , so aware was I of the inutility ...
... common in the higher walks of life than is generally imagined ; but its funestal moral influences were never before , I believe , held up by the poet or moralist . In these last publications , however , so aware was I of the inutility ...
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... Common popularity is seldom just . I am mistaken , if , among writers of my time , the worst are not those who have gained most applause . " Who now remembers one of them - but when will the truths , the sound common sense of Montaigne ...
... Common popularity is seldom just . I am mistaken , if , among writers of my time , the worst are not those who have gained most applause . " Who now remembers one of them - but when will the truths , the sound common sense of Montaigne ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
altar Amasis BABYLONIAN bear beautiful Behold beneath blessed bosom breath brow Cambyses CATILINE chains CHIEF HIEROPHANT CHIEF PREFECT crown crushed dared death deeds descend divinity Dost thou doth Drama dream dwell earth Egypt EGYPTIAN embruted EPIMETHEUS eternal eyes falchion fear feel fellow-men felt fire flame forgot freedom gather glory gods guard hands hath hear heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human immortal infinite inspiration John Gorham Palfrey justice king labour lake Liberty light LILIS living mankind MEMPHIAN Memphis mighty hearts mind Moris MULTITUDE Nature Nature's never Nile NUBIAN o'er Osiris passions PHOENICIAN Plato Plotinus Poem poet priests PROMETHEUS pure Pyramids records rise round ruins says SCENE SEGED sense shew shrine silent slavery slaves sleep soul spirit Spiritus intus alit stand strength sublime temple Thebes thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thought throne truth tyranny tyrants voice Voices of prophecy wind worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 49 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for, if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Seite 103 - perils did abound As thick as thought could make them, and appear In forms more horrid, yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood. Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand
Seite 67 - full meridian of my glory I haste DOW to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. And no man see me more.
Seite 91 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star. And think to wed it, he is so above me: In
Seite 15 - It is the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Seite xxv - GOD hath made all things beautiful in their seasons ; also, He hath placed the world in man's heart: yet cannot man find out the work which GOD worketh from the beginning to the end.
Seite 37 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
Seite 103 - of beatun brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to the strength of spirit!"
Seite 121 - using, as vehicles, every species of terrestrial, winged, and aquatic animals, it finally enters, a second time, into the human body. They affirm that it undergoes all these changes in the space of three thousand years.
Seite 126 - west," behind; "south," the right; and " the north," obscure, or concealed. The three first of these terms denote the position of an adorer of the sun; the last describes the darkness with which the first inhabitants of the earth believed the northern part of the globe to be enveloped.