The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to say , along the banks of the Nile , ) except two , whom we shall have occasion to mention here- after , and whose labours are not ...
... ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to say , along the banks of the Nile , ) except two , whom we shall have occasion to mention here- after , and whose labours are not ...
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covered with heaps of rubbish and strewed over with the fragments of ancient buildings . ' Even its venerable ruins are fast disappear- ing , the Turks having so little feeling for ancient works of art , that they dig up the most ...
covered with heaps of rubbish and strewed over with the fragments of ancient buildings . ' Even its venerable ruins are fast disappear- ing , the Turks having so little feeling for ancient works of art , that they dig up the most ...
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... Ancient Coptic books are said to be found still in Upper Egypt , but no Copt under- stands them ; and the Rosetta stone , we suspect , is still little less mysterious than it was on the day of its arrival in England . The simplicity of ...
... Ancient Coptic books are said to be found still in Upper Egypt , but no Copt under- stands them ; and the Rosetta stone , we suspect , is still little less mysterious than it was on the day of its arrival in England . The simplicity of ...
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... ancient Hermopolis , they partook of the enthusiasm with which Denon speaks of its splendid ruins ; but Mr. Legh observes , that his de- lineation of them denotes the haste with which he travelled , for that the Winged Globe represented ...
... ancient Hermopolis , they partook of the enthusiasm with which Denon speaks of its splendid ruins ; but Mr. Legh observes , that his de- lineation of them denotes the haste with which he travelled , for that the Winged Globe represented ...
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... ancient poets and historians - the wonder of every traveller in every age - that venerable city , ( as Pococke says , ) the date of whose destruction is older than the foun- dation of most other cities -- and the extent of whose ruins ...
... ancient poets and historians - the wonder of every traveller in every age - that venerable city , ( as Pococke says , ) the date of whose destruction is older than the foun- dation of most other cities -- and the extent of whose ruins ...
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Página 196 - 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 397 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 198 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Página 252 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 202 - A small green isle, it seem'd no more, Scarce broader than my dungeon floor, But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Página 195 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 86 - Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch ; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes.
Página 195 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Página 202 - It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No check — no change — no good — no crime — But silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless...
Página 184 - Demons in act, but gods at least in face, In Conrad's form seems little to admire, Though his dark eyebrow shades a glance of fire : Robust but not Herculean — to the sight No giant frame sets forth his common height ; Yet, in the whole, who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men ; They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.