The MartyrsDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 451 páginas |
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abode abyss Achaia altar angel appeared Armorica arms arose beauty beheld beneath bishop bosom Cæsar catechumen celestial charms Christians Church concealed confessors Constantine cried crowd crown Cymodoce Cyril daugh daughter of Demodocus daughter of Homer death Demodocus demon descended desert Diocletian divine Dorotheus earth emperor empire eternal Eudorus exclaimed eyes faithful father favor fear Galerius Gaul glory gods Greece hands happiness hastened heart heaven hell Hierocles holy honor Ithome Jerome Jesus Christ Jupiter Lacedæmon Lasthenes light lyre martyr master Messenia midst mother mountains Muses night palace passed passions persecution Pharamond prayers priest of Homer prince prison proconsul religion repose robe Roman Rome ruins sacred sacrifice Satan seated seemed Sephora shores silence slave soldiers son of Lasthenes sorrows soul spouse summit Taygetus tears temple tender Teutates thee Thermæ thou tion tomb trembling Velleda vessel victim virgin virtue voice waves words young Zacharius
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Página 54 - She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Página xx - In reviewing the Epic Poets, it were unjust to make no mention of the amiable author of the Adventures of Telemachus. His work, though not composed in Verse, is justly entitled to be held a Poem. The measured poetical Prose, in which it is written, is remarkably harmonious ; and gives the Style nearly as much elevation as the French language is capable of supporting, even in regular Verse.
Página xi - ... the language of Genesis might be blended with that of the Odyssey, and the Jupiter of Homer be placed by the side of the Jehovah of Milton, without giving offence to piety, to taste, or to probability. • Having once conceived this idea, I had no difficulty in finding an historical epoch where the two religions met in conjunction. The scene opens toward the close of the third century, at the moment when the persecution of the Christians commenced under. Diocletian. Christianity had not yet become...
Página xxx - The reader anticipates that this is not all. " She perceived a youth, who lay reclined in slumber against the rock: his head rested on his left shoulder, and was partly supported by his lance ; a ray of the moon, darting through the branches of a cypress, shone full in the huntsman's face. A disciple of Apelles would have thus represented the slumbers of Endymion.— * Indeed, the daughter of Demodocus really imagined that in this youth she beheld the lover of Diana ; in a plaintive zephyr she thought...
Página xvi - I trust, I say, that some credit will be allowed me for my exertions.' — « Not content with all my studies, all my sacrifices, and all my scruples, I undertook a voyage on purpose to inspect with my own eyes the scenes which I wished to describe. Should my work, therefore, have no other merit, it will at least possess the interest of an accurate description of some of the most famous places of antiquity. I commenced my journey from the ruins of Sparta, and after passing ' through Argos, Corinth,...
Página xi - ... the reader an impartial judge in this great literary process, it was necessary to make choice of a subject that would allow me to throw upon the same canvas the predominant features of the two religions; the morality, the sacrifices, and the ceremonies of both systems of worship: a subject where the language of Genesis might be blended with that of the Odyssey...
Página xi - ... them in his work would become one of the leading objects in composing it. Still, the plan must have some one object decidedly and substantially predominant. What that is, we should have considerable difficulty in defining, if we were not allowed to avail ourselves of the author's own explanation. " I advanced in a former work that Christianity appeared to me more favourable than paganism for the development of characters, and for a display of the passions ; I added, moreover, that the...
Página xxii - God began to contest the honours offered on the shrines of idolatry; the number of the faithful increased daily ; and honours, riches, and glory, were no longer the exclusive inheritance of the worshippers of Jupiter. Hell, threatened with the loss of its empire, wished to interrupt the course of these heavenly victories; and the Eternal, who saw the virtues of his people languish in prosperity, permitted the demons to excite a fresh persecution ; but this last and terrible trial was ultimately to...
Página xxx - ... moonlight night, she loses her way and her female attendant, in a mountain forest. Excessively alarmed, though all was silent except a little stream, she flew to implore the protection of the Naiad of this stream, and found an altar at the foot of a cascade. The reader anticipates that this is not all. ' She perceived a youth, who lay reclined in slumber against the rock : his head rested on his left shoulder, and was partly supported by his lance; a ray of the moon, darting through the branches...