The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumi 34-351845 |
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Pagina 16
... pictures at Venice , where whole soul and popular character are the principal walls are so figured over with the swift im- thing ; and whoever has not known and pressions of a quick fancy and a ready hand , valued this element , whoever ...
... pictures at Venice , where whole soul and popular character are the principal walls are so figured over with the swift im- thing ; and whoever has not known and pressions of a quick fancy and a ready hand , valued this element , whoever ...
Pagina 24
... picture of the epoch in question . And a very curious and extraordinary picture he has produced . It may , perhaps , be doubt- ed whether Signor Cusani might not have done better had he made all the materials in his possession the ...
... picture of the epoch in question . And a very curious and extraordinary picture he has produced . It may , perhaps , be doubt- ed whether Signor Cusani might not have done better had he made all the materials in his possession the ...
Pagina 25
... picture is a striking one ; and it represents accurately enough the condition of the country during that period . But having written thus far , the poor Italian author seems to have been struck with fear lest his lamentations over The ...
... picture is a striking one ; and it represents accurately enough the condition of the country during that period . But having written thus far , the poor Italian author seems to have been struck with fear lest his lamentations over The ...
Pagina 33
... picture is fully confirmed thus empowered to intrude , are given by by Ripamonti and others . Ripamonti , and all the other historians of VOL . XXXIV . 4 It might be thought that the unfortunate city needed no further aggravation of its ...
... picture is fully confirmed thus empowered to intrude , are given by by Ripamonti and others . Ripamonti , and all the other historians of VOL . XXXIV . 4 It might be thought that the unfortunate city needed no further aggravation of its ...
Pagina 34
... picture of the evil workings of superstition , igno- rance , and prejudice . It was on the morning of the 22d of April that , some persons going into the streets , at daybreak , first observed certain stains along the walls , as if they ...
... picture of the evil workings of superstition , igno- rance , and prejudice . It was on the morning of the 22d of April that , some persons going into the streets , at daybreak , first observed certain stains along the walls , as if they ...
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Pagina 193 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore, his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Pagina 193 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pagina 133 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Pagina 250 - ... lignes du plan qui s'ébauchait alors dans mon esprit. Je l'avoue, au milieu des doutes qui accompagnent tout travail consciencieux, mon ardeur et ma confiance furent doublées , par l'espèce de sanction indirecte qu'un de mes aperçus favoris recevait ainsi de l'homme que je regarde comme le plus grand maître qu'il y ait jamais eu en fait de divination historique.
Pagina 173 - L'a fait pour son malheur pencher vers ma rivale. Nous le verrions encor nous partager ses soins ; II m'aimerait peut-être ; il le feindrait du moins. Adieu. Tu peux partir. Je demeure en Epire : Je renonce à la Grèce, à Sparte, à son empire, A toute ma famille ; et c'est assez pour moi.
Pagina 114 - ... Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, Slave Trade, Post Office Communications, Copyright, &c., and to the Privileges and Interests of the Subjects of the High Contracting Parties ; compiled from Authentic Documents.
Pagina 118 - race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong.
Pagina 54 - The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Pagina 197 - ... towards the middle of thy belly, the region of the navel, and search the place of the heart, the seat of the soul. At first all will be dark and comfortless, but if you persevere day and night you will feel an ineffable joy , and no sooner has the soul discovered the place of the heart than it is involved in a mystic and ethereal light.
Pagina 193 - Caffre wends home through the lone karroo; When the boshbok in the thicket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ; Then bend your gaze across the waste — what see ye ? The giraffe, Majestic, stalks towards the lagoon, the turbid lymph to quaff; With outstretched neck and tongue adust, he kneels him down to cool His hot thirst with a welcome draught from the foul and brackish pool. A rustling sound, a roar, a bound — the lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride?