Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1820 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... Philip of Macedon ; after a mass of preliminary information concern- ing the Grecian settlements in Sicily and Italy , and respect- ing Macedonia , from the reign of Perdiccas to the establish- ment of Philip , to which we have only ...
... Philip of Macedon ; after a mass of preliminary information concern- ing the Grecian settlements in Sicily and Italy , and respect- ing Macedonia , from the reign of Perdiccas to the establish- ment of Philip , to which we have only ...
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... Philip towards them , we enter on a period perhaps the most interesting in all Grecian history , and for which we are almost without an historian . Dicdorus and Plutarch afford nearly all the scanty materials that we possess , and it is ...
... Philip towards them , we enter on a period perhaps the most interesting in all Grecian history , and for which we are almost without an historian . Dicdorus and Plutarch afford nearly all the scanty materials that we possess , and it is ...
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... Philip in a cause of which we did not per- ceive the real merits , till at a more advanced period of life we reviewed and corrected our early prepossessions . Yet it was the art of the orator only that seduced and misled our sympa ...
... Philip in a cause of which we did not per- ceive the real merits , till at a more advanced period of life we reviewed and corrected our early prepossessions . Yet it was the art of the orator only that seduced and misled our sympa ...
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... Philip , ) might be ventured in assertion to the Athenian Many , Demosthenes has left a curious example . Hardly anything in Grecian history is better authenticated than the fate of Olynthus in its contest with Lacedæmon ; the complete ...
... Philip , ) might be ventured in assertion to the Athenian Many , Demosthenes has left a curious example . Hardly anything in Grecian history is better authenticated than the fate of Olynthus in its contest with Lacedæmon ; the complete ...
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... Philip to a seat in the Amphyctionic council ( which had been decreed by that assembly to the reigning family of Macedon ) was disallowed by the Athe- nians ; and the people decreed that the treaty which had yielded Amphipolis was void ...
... Philip to a seat in the Amphyctionic council ( which had been decreed by that assembly to the reigning family of Macedon ) was disallowed by the Athe- nians ; and the people decreed that the treaty which had yielded Amphipolis was void ...
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Página 194 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Página 339 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 341 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies...
Página 341 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor...
Página 341 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Página 339 - She was a Goddess of the infant world; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel.
Página 340 - Golden his hair of short Numidian curl, Regal his shape majestic, a vast shade In midst of his own brightness, like the bulk Of Memnon's image at the set of sun To one who travels from the dusking East : Sighs, too, as mournful as that Memnon's harp, He utter'd, while his hands, contemplative, He press'd together, and in silence stood.
Página 125 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Página 341 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer...
Página 95 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.