The Quarterly Review, Volume 21William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1819 |
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... Cratinus , ( that Cratinus who collected his declining powers to shew a youthful and not altogether forbearing rival , that he could still contest the palm with him , ) and to the Connus of the cold and spiritless Ameipsias . This was ...
... Cratinus , ( that Cratinus who collected his declining powers to shew a youthful and not altogether forbearing rival , that he could still contest the palm with him , ) and to the Connus of the cold and spiritless Ameipsias . This was ...
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... Cratinus had administered . But we are inclined to disagree with Ĉlian , and to think that it was the audience , and not the judges , to whom must be ascribed the ill success of the piece . There can be no doubt that the Clouds failed ...
... Cratinus had administered . But we are inclined to disagree with Ĉlian , and to think that it was the audience , and not the judges , to whom must be ascribed the ill success of the piece . There can be no doubt that the Clouds failed ...
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... Cratinus , not without a hint two at the infirmities which intemperance had brought upon a man , now supposed to be past his labours . The old bard had spirit enough to resent the attack ; he brought forward a comedy , called the Wine ...
... Cratinus , not without a hint two at the infirmities which intemperance had brought upon a man , now supposed to be past his labours . The old bard had spirit enough to resent the attack ; he brought forward a comedy , called the Wine ...
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... Cratinus may forget , or the storm of whim and wit , which shook theatres under his guiding ? When Panegyric's song pour'd her flood of praise along ; who but he on the top wave was riding ? Foe nor rival might him meet ; planet and oak ...
... Cratinus may forget , or the storm of whim and wit , which shook theatres under his guiding ? When Panegyric's song pour'd her flood of praise along ; who but he on the top wave was riding ? Foe nor rival might him meet ; planet and oak ...
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... Cratinus , Connas appears to have made himself a little conspicuous by con- stantly wearing a chaplet on his head . † Crates was first an actor , and afterwards a writer of the Old Comedy : he per- formed the principal characters in ...
... Cratinus , Connas appears to have made himself a little conspicuous by con- stantly wearing a chaplet on his head . † Crates was first an actor , and afterwards a writer of the Old Comedy : he per- formed the principal characters in ...
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Page 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Page 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Page 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Page 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.