The Dial, Volumen5Francis Fisher Browne Jansen, McClurg, 1885 |
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... Arrian gives proof of his superior judgment in choos- ing as authorities Aristobulus and Ptolemy , who were close companions of Alexander , and who writing after the hero's death are the more probably disinterested . Plutarch , while ...
... Arrian gives proof of his superior judgment in choos- ing as authorities Aristobulus and Ptolemy , who were close companions of Alexander , and who writing after the hero's death are the more probably disinterested . Plutarch , while ...
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... Arrian merit the proud pseudonym of Xenophon the Younger . His style , although it occasionally fails of the Attic ... Arrian's greyhound , Horme a piece of description that elevates the subject to an indi- viduality fairly equal to that ...
... Arrian merit the proud pseudonym of Xenophon the Younger . His style , although it occasionally fails of the Attic ... Arrian's greyhound , Horme a piece of description that elevates the subject to an indi- viduality fairly equal to that ...
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... Arrian the Nicomedian . By E. J. Chinnock , M.A. , L.C.B. Pp . 443. London . Net , $ 2.65 . The Discoveries of America , to the Year 1525. By A. J. Weise , M.A. 8vo , pp . 380. $ 4.50 . Little Arthur's History of England . By Lady ...
... Arrian the Nicomedian . By E. J. Chinnock , M.A. , L.C.B. Pp . 443. London . Net , $ 2.65 . The Discoveries of America , to the Year 1525. By A. J. Weise , M.A. 8vo , pp . 380. $ 4.50 . Little Arthur's History of England . By Lady ...
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... Arrian's Anabasis , " in the September DIAL , in which the date of publication of Rooke's translation of Arrian is given as 1814 , instead of 1729. The latter date un- doubtedly is the correct one , and is that given in the copy in the ...
... Arrian's Anabasis , " in the September DIAL , in which the date of publication of Rooke's translation of Arrian is given as 1814 , instead of 1729. The latter date un- doubtedly is the correct one , and is that given in the copy in the ...
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Página 245 - INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last : 'Twas on a tree they slew Him —...
Página 320 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas, the Kings dearest daughter, when.
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Página 320 - Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper: for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Página 296 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means ; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, — which I trust in God we shall not.
Página 271 - To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Página 276 - Crime of Christmas Day. A Tale of the Latin Quarter. By the Author of "My Ducats and my Daughter." is. HUNTER, Hay, and WHYTE, Walter.— My Ducats and My Daughter.
Página 270 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Página 245 - Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream,— Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night, Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light, Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem But a bubble that broke in a dream, If a bound of degree to this grace be laid, Or a sound or a motion made.
Página 80 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.