The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life, المجلد 2W. Blackwood and Sons, 1844 |
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Abencerrages Admetus Alcestis Athens Battle of Maclodio beam beauty blest bloom bower brave breast breathe bright brow Caius calm Carmagnola Conradin dark dead death deep despair doom dread dream dwell e'en earth Elgin Marbles Emilianus fair fame fane fate fearful fled flower foes gale gaze glorious glory glory's glow grace Granada grandeur grave Greece grief Hamet hast hath heart heaven hope hour hush'd Italy light lofty lonely lords of war majesty METASTASIO midst mighty mingling Moorish mortal mourn murmur ne'er Note o'er o'er thy once pangs pass'd Plutarch proud repose rocks Rome rose round ruin scene shade shore shrine sigh silent skies sleep slumber smile song soul sound Spain spirit stern sublime sunbeams swell tears thee thine thou art thought throne tomb towers triumph vale vale of Tempe vanish'd voice wake warrior wave weep wild
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الصفحة 117 - Moreover, two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.—27. And Heliodorus fell suddenly to the ground, and was compassed with great darkness; but they that were
الصفحة 93 - Sunk is the crowning city's throne. " Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ?"—Isaiah, chap.
الصفحة 95 - Now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair."—MILTON. Note 13, page
الصفحة 92 - Spoke with the voice of ages past. " Posterity will compare the virtues and failings of this extraordinary man ; but in a long period of anarchy and servitude, the name of Rienzi has often been celebrated as the deliverer of his country, and the last of the Roman patriots." —GIBBON'S Decline and Fall, &c., vol. xii.
الصفحة 105 - concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work."—See The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. vp 329.] HEARD ye the Gothic trumpet's blast ? The march of hosts as Alaric pass'd
الصفحة 214 - 19. Or they whose forms to Alaric's awe-struck eye. " From Thermopylae to Sparta, the leader of the Goths (Alaric) pursued his victorious march without encountering any mortal antagonist; but one of the advocates of expiring paganism has confidently asserted that the walls of Athens were guarded by the goddess Minerva, with her formidable
الصفحة 110 - of the Nations there; To rest, at length, from victory's toil, Alone, with all an empire's spoil! Then the freed current's rushing wave Rolls o'er the secret of the grave • Then streams the martyr'd captives' blood To crimson that sepulchral flood, Whose conscious tide alone shall keep The mystery in its bosom deep. Time hath
الصفحة 96 - bright appearances " have smiled. " In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?"—MILTON. THE LAST BANQUET
الصفحة 169 - O Greece ! thou sapient nurse of finer arts, Which to bright Science blooming Fancy bore, Be this thy praise, that thou, and thou alone, In these hast led the way, in these excell'd, Crown'd with the laurel of assenting Time.
الصفحة 253 - Death ! to me, the child of grief, Thy welcome power would bring relief, Changing to peaceful slumber many a care. And though thy stroke may thrill with pain Each throbbing pulse, each quivering vein; The pangs that bid existence close, Ah ! sure are far less keen than those Which cloud its lingering moments with despair. FRANCESCO LORENZINI.