The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1860 |
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Page 68
... Rome , might be existing now , had but one half the spirit been found in Rome which ran through a single vein of Cola di Rienzi . Many years after the expression of that lofty and unjust estimate of the " Last of the Tribunes , " a ...
... Rome , might be existing now , had but one half the spirit been found in Rome which ran through a single vein of Cola di Rienzi . Many years after the expression of that lofty and unjust estimate of the " Last of the Tribunes , " a ...
Page 69
... Rome , in 1313 or 1314 , in the part of the Eter- nal City called the Rione , on the left bank of the Tiber , opposite what is now termed the Trastaverine quarter of the city . The half - ruined palace , shown at this day , at Rome , to ...
... Rome , in 1313 or 1314 , in the part of the Eter- nal City called the Rione , on the left bank of the Tiber , opposite what is now termed the Trastaverine quarter of the city . The half - ruined palace , shown at this day , at Rome , to ...
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... Rome , nor the Pontifical Rome . The Teutonic Cæsars had abandoned her . The Popes had also fled from the sacred hill of the Vatican to the slimy Gallic city , Avignon . One , and some- times two , senators , were invested with the ...
... Rome , nor the Pontifical Rome . The Teutonic Cæsars had abandoned her . The Popes had also fled from the sacred hill of the Vatican to the slimy Gallic city , Avignon . One , and some- times two , senators , were invested with the ...
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... Rome much more than of the Poet . The cry of the " Capitol for ever " soon replaced that of " Long live the Poet . " The Capitol , namely , the glorious hill , where the fortune of Rome had commenced , the memor- able hill , before ...
... Rome much more than of the Poet . The cry of the " Capitol for ever " soon replaced that of " Long live the Poet . " The Capitol , namely , the glorious hill , where the fortune of Rome had commenced , the memor- able hill , before ...
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... Rome . Rienzi was even exposed to some danger , for in his ha- rangue , having fearlesslydenounced the lawless rapines of the Roman nobles , Cardinal Colonna , in his indignation , contrived to have him expelled from the pontifical ...
... Rome . Rienzi was even exposed to some danger , for in his ha- rangue , having fearlesslydenounced the lawless rapines of the Roman nobles , Cardinal Colonna , in his indignation , contrived to have him expelled from the pontifical ...
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Page 387 - I was confirm'd in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men, or famous Cities, unlesse he have in himselfe the experience and the practice of all that which is praise-worthy.
Page 443 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 387 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 211 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 387 - And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary.
Page 25 - ... that with extinct as with existing mammalia, particular forms were assigned to particular provinces, and that the same forms were restricted to the same provinces at a former geological period as they are at the present day.
Page 490 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 70 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Page 255 - Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
Page 233 - ... to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...