The Quarterly Review (Volume 49) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Excerpt: ... On seraph wing I'd float a Dream by night, To soothe my lore with shadows of delight: Or soar aloft to be the Spangled Skies, And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes -- Cohridge. It would lead us into another subject, if we were now to go" OH to distinguish, as we have it in our minds to do, between the lyric poetry proper of old Greece and the choric songs of the great dramatists. Another more fitting opportunity may be found J and enough of such old lore for the present. Pleasant, indeed-- very pleasant it is to us--to recur for a brief hour to the themes of those sweet and silent studies in which we passed our youth, and to take a second draught at the fountains of almost all that is just and beautiful in human language. Such a momentary diversion must be delightful to every one who has within him any sense of the true and the pure in taste; but who can estimate the peculiar gust with which Reviewers turn to an old master, from the thousand-times-hashed novel, the lying memoir, or the brutal pamphlet? Art. IV.--A Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the English Race-horse. By R. Darvill, V. S, 7th Hussars. London. 8vo. 1832. JN splendour of exhibition and multitude of attendants* New* market, Epsom, Ascot, or Doncaster would bear no comparison with the imposing spectacles of the Olympic Games; and had not racing been considered in Greece a matter of the highest national importance, Sophocles would have been guilty of a great fault in his Electra, when he puts into the mouth of the messenger who comes to recount the death of Orestes, a long description of the above sports. Nor are these the only points of difference between the racing of Olympia and Newmarket. At the former, honour alone was the reward of the winner, and no man lost either his character or his money....