Translations of the Oxford and Cambridge ... poems [by N.L. Torre.]. |
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afar Amesbury amidst ancient bands bard Bart beams behold beneath blest boast bold breast burst Carthage Charles Chief Cicero coast College confest copies deck'd deep display'd doom dread E'en fame fane fate favour'd Fix'd flood foes Gaul gifts hail Hants hath haunt Heaven Henry Herculaneum Hermocrates Honourable the Earl host hour HOUSE AT CAMBRIDGE John land LATIN ODE RECITED LATIN PRIZE POEM light Lincoln's Lincoln's Inn London Malta meads mighty mourn Muse native Nile Northamptonshire o'er peace perchance plain PRIZE POEM PRIZE POEM RECITED proud race rage rais'd realms reign reveal'd Right Honourable Right Honourable Lord rise rock sacred scene shade shore SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR sight smile spread Staffordshire sway Syracuse Temple Thammuz THEATRE AT OXFORD Thebes thee thine thou tide Timoleon toil tomb towers tribes triumph Twas Tyre vales Verse view'd War's Warwickshire waves Whilst William Winchester College wrath
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Seite 207 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 34 - Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on the' Egyptian plain, .(That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Seite 156 - ... light ; And, yet more splendid, numerous flocks Of pigeons, settling on the rocks, With their rich restless wings, that gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.
Seite 137 - From every stranger that landed in their island they gleaned every small specimen or portion of his works, and communicated it with pleasure to each other. It is said that...
Seite 115 - The most sublime ideas, that can be formed from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins ; for such is the difference, not only in magnitude, but in form, proportion, and construction, that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole. It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Seite 115 - It is absolutely impossible," says the enterprising Belzoni, " to imagine the scene displayed at Thebes, without seeing it. The most sublime ideas that can be formed from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture, would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins...
Seite 13 - II. ; the waxen figure of Peter in the museum of the Academy founded by himself; the dress, the sword, and the hat, which he wore at the battle of Pultowa, the last pierced through with a ball ; the horse that he rode in that battle ; the trousers, worsted stockings...
Seite 13 - Zaandam, all in the same apartment ; his two favourite dogs, his turning-lathe, and tools, with specimens of his workmanship ; the iron bar which he forged with his own hand at Olonitz; the little Grandsire, so carefully preserved as the first germ of the Russian navy ; and the wooden hut in which he lived while superintending the first foundation of Petersburg!! ; — these and a thousand other tangible memorials, all preserved with* the utmost care, speak in most intelligible language the opinion...
Seite 203 - And mourn the captive land you loved so well ; (For oft, 'tis said, in Kedron's palmy vale Mysterious harpings swell the midnight gale, And, blest as balmy dews that Hermon cheer, Melt in soft cadence on the pilgrim's ear ;) Forgive, blest spirits, if a theme so high Mock the weak notes of mortal.
Seite 54 - The opening of daylight disclosed a most dreadful spectacle ! Many were seen in the midst of the flames crying out for help, while others were floating upon pieces of timber, exposed to equal danger from the opposite element ; but the generous humanity of the victors equalled their valour, and was the more honourable, as the exertions of it exposed them to no less danger than those of active hostility. In endeavouring to save the lives of his enemies, Captain Curtis nearly lost his own : while, for...