The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 196A. Constable, 1902 |
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... in Epics the noblest parts are those which describe not outward war , or outward love , but those which penetrate the deep - sea levels of thought and feeling . The Homeric poems ( or , at least 1902 . 29 War and Poetry .
... in Epics the noblest parts are those which describe not outward war , or outward love , but those which penetrate the deep - sea levels of thought and feeling . The Homeric poems ( or , at least 1902 . 29 War and Poetry .
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Or Critical Journal. feeling . The Homeric poems ( or , at least , the Iliad ' ) , true as they are to elemental feelings , and spacious and glancing as the sea , are yet books for boys when compared with the Eneid ' and with the Divine ...
Or Critical Journal. feeling . The Homeric poems ( or , at least , the Iliad ' ) , true as they are to elemental feelings , and spacious and glancing as the sea , are yet books for boys when compared with the Eneid ' and with the Divine ...
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... feels that war was altogether repugnant to his gentle , civilised , and profound spirit : — ' Nos alias hinc ad lacrymas eadem horrida belli Fata vocant . ' The horror of the miserable half - century between Sulla's march on Rome and ...
... feels that war was altogether repugnant to his gentle , civilised , and profound spirit : — ' Nos alias hinc ad lacrymas eadem horrida belli Fata vocant . ' The horror of the miserable half - century between Sulla's march on Rome and ...
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... feeling of all Europe , and even of part of France , was with us in that fight against Napoleon . In this case , at least , it might have been said securus judicat orbis terrarum . ' The British Isles teemed with poets produced , no ...
... feeling of all Europe , and even of part of France , was with us in that fight against Napoleon . In this case , at least , it might have been said securus judicat orbis terrarum . ' The British Isles teemed with poets produced , no ...
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... feels the crisis of the battle begin , as the trumpet sounds for the charge of the Bavarian horse . In the Battle of the ... feeling of one side of war , and it will endure while and wherever English is spoken or read . One What did the ...
... feels the crisis of the battle begin , as the trumpet sounds for the charge of the Bavarian horse . In the Battle of the ... feeling of one side of war , and it will endure while and wherever English is spoken or read . One What did the ...
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Página 46 - Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, % Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.
Página 38 - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Página 136 - ... would indeed be a •wild project ; it would be to dig up foundations ; to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom ; to break the entire frame and constitution of things ; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them ; in short, to turn our courts, exchanges, and shops into deserts...
Página 31 - She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workman's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Página 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 191 - Another thing in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards is, that they do not embarrass or cumber themselves with too much plot ; they only represent so much of a story as will constitute one whole and great action sufficient for a play ; we, who undertake more, do but multiply adventures ; which, not being produced from one another, as effects from causes, but barely following, constitute many actions in the drama, and consequently make it many plays.
Página 43 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 91 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Página 44 - Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope. Upon Saint Crispin's Day...
Página 37 - VANGUARD of Liberty, ye men of Kent, Ye children of a Soil that doth advance Her haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment! To France be words of invitation sent ! They from their fields can see the countenance Of your fierce war, may ken the glittering lance, And hear you shouting forth your brave intent. Left single, in bold parley...