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Side 196
... Strabo ; and though ages have revolved since then , the interest felt in every circumstance connected with them has suffered no abatement . Instead of expressing surprise , therefore , at the numbers who have visited and written upon ...
... Strabo ; and though ages have revolved since then , the interest felt in every circumstance connected with them has suffered no abatement . Instead of expressing surprise , therefore , at the numbers who have visited and written upon ...
Side 198
... Strabo , who lived about 1200 years after Homer , describes the region of the Troad at considerable length in his 13th book , chiefly on the autho- rity of Demetrius of Scepsis , for he appears not to have visited the place himself . He ...
... Strabo , who lived about 1200 years after Homer , describes the region of the Troad at considerable length in his 13th book , chiefly on the autho- rity of Demetrius of Scepsis , for he appears not to have visited the place himself . He ...
Side 199
... Strabo and Pausanias the name of Hellespont was restricted to the narrow canal ; and that these writers , with all the ancient Greeks , we believe , without exception , held the country alluded to to be the plain of Troy . But Homer ...
... Strabo and Pausanias the name of Hellespont was restricted to the narrow canal ; and that these writers , with all the ancient Greeks , we believe , without exception , held the country alluded to to be the plain of Troy . But Homer ...
Side 200
... Strabo , and have been assigned to Achilles , ( C ) Patroclus , ( D , ) and Antilochus , ( E. ) The Tepe Gheulu is the tumulus of Ajax alluded to by Strabo and Pliny ; and the point on which it stands is the promontory of Rheteum . Out ...
... Strabo , and have been assigned to Achilles , ( C ) Patroclus , ( D , ) and Antilochus , ( E. ) The Tepe Gheulu is the tumulus of Ajax alluded to by Strabo and Pliny ; and the point on which it stands is the promontory of Rheteum . Out ...
Side 201
... Strabo . The learned were for some time captivated by this hypothesis , which pretended to assign the scene of every incident related by the poet , and the situation of every object named by him . It had some plausible circum- stances ...
... Strabo . The learned were for some time captivated by this hypothesis , which pretended to assign the scene of every incident related by the poet , and the situation of every object named by him . It had some plausible circum- stances ...
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Side 244 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Side 245 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Side 243 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Side 46 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Side 243 - We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire. Who in their nightly watchful spheres Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Side 245 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Side 244 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Side 243 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Side 242 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Side 29 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...