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... Greek originals , now lost , and from Per- sian and Syriac , & c . ; besides works of their own people . Four years ago the French instituted an Armenian professorship . Twenty pupils presented themselves on Monday morning , full of ...
... Greek originals , now lost , and from Per- sian and Syriac , & c . ; besides works of their own people . Four years ago the French instituted an Armenian professorship . Twenty pupils presented themselves on Monday morning , full of ...
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... Greek one in my box , whom I wished very much to volunteer his services , being sure that in case these would have been the last convulsions which would have troubled the ballarina ; but he would not . The crowd was enormous , and in ...
... Greek one in my box , whom I wished very much to volunteer his services , being sure that in case these would have been the last convulsions which would have troubled the ballarina ; but he would not . The crowd was enormous , and in ...
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... Greeks , without the sullenness of the former or the servility of the latter . This people has attained riches without usury , and all the bonours that can be awarded to slavery without intrigue . But they have long occupied ...
... Greeks , without the sullenness of the former or the servility of the latter . This people has attained riches without usury , and all the bonours that can be awarded to slavery without intrigue . But they have long occupied ...
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... Greek originals now lost . They are , besides , a much respected and learned com◅ munity , and the study of their language was taken up with great ardour by some literary Frenchmen in Buonaparte's time . " I have not done a stitch of ...
... Greek originals now lost . They are , besides , a much respected and learned com◅ munity , and the study of their language was taken up with great ardour by some literary Frenchmen in Buonaparte's time . " I have not done a stitch of ...
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... Greek of Corfu , ) when lo ! in a very few minntes in marches , to my very great astonishment , Marianna S , in propria persona , and , after making a most polite curtsey to her sister- in - law and to me , without a single word seizes ...
... Greek of Corfu , ) when lo ! in a very few minntes in marches , to my very great astonishment , Marianna S , in propria persona , and , after making a most polite curtsey to her sister- in - law and to me , without a single word seizes ...
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Página 71 - So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon.
Página 401 - As to poor Shelley, who is another bugbear to you and the world, he is, to my knowledge, the least selfish and the mildest of men — a man who has made more sacrifices of his fortune and feelings for others than any I ever heard of.
Página 335 - I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly ; ' 'Twas one of my feats.' " ' Who shot the arrow? ' ' The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man), Or Southey or Barrow.
Página 103 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy!
Página 24 - But this is not all : the feeling with which all around Clarens, and the opposite rocks of Meillerie, is invested, is of a still higher and more comprehensive order than the mere sympathy with individual passion ; it is a sense of the existence of love in its most extended and sublime capacity, and of our own participation of its good and of its glory : it is the great principle of the universe, which is there more condensed, but not less manifested ; and of which, though knowing ourselves a part,...
Página 501 - ... charges) of my own monies to forward their projects. The Suliotes (now in Acarnania) are very anxious that I should take them under my directions, and go over and put things to rights in the Morea, which, without a force, seems impracticable; and, really, though very reluctant (as my letters will have shown you) to take such a measure, there seems hardly any milder remedy. However, I will not do any thing rashly, and have only continued here so long in the hope of seeing things reconciled, and...
Página 36 - Has lost its praise in this but one regret; There may be others which I less may show ;— I am not of the plaintive mood, and yet I feel an ebb in my philosophy, And the tide rising in my alter'd eye. I did remind thee of our own dear Lake, By the old Hall which may be mine no more.
Página 377 - Thou art gone; And he who would assail thee in thy grave, Oh, let him pause ! For who among us all, Tried as thou wert — even from thine earliest years, When wandering, yet unspoilt, a...
Página 276 - Thought of the state of women under the ancient Greeks — convenient enough. Present state, a remnant of the barbarism of the chivalry and feudal ages — artificial and unnatural. They ought to mind home — and be well fed and clothed — but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion— but to read neither poetry nor politics — nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music — drawing...