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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Modern Chivalry — a Manifesto. (search)
Knights of the Golden Circle, which has just been printed in The Richmond Whig, by Sir George Bickley, President of the American Legion and K. G. C. Since Sir Waiter Raleigh, there has been no fillibuster so accomplisted as Knight George. In urging his men-at-arms to rush to the rendezvous, he strengthens his appeal by quoting from history in the most miscellaneous manner, and by using terms the most recondite and scientific. He speaks of the days of Nimrod, Ashur, Fohi, Mizraim, Athotes, Memnon, Solomon, Hiram, Uleg-Beg, Gengis Khan and Psammeticus, as if they were only of yesterday, or the day before. He makes an off-hand allusion to Pyramids and Sphynxes with an ease with is perfectly tremendous. We do not know any Doctor of Divinity who has exhibited such perfect familiarity with the intentions of the Almighty. He uses all the hard philosophical terms with as much ease as if he had been born under the Portico, swaddled in the Lyceum, educated in a German University, and subse
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 168 (search)
ere was nothing for the fleet to do but to lie at anchor in the roadstead it had gained in the main ship channel, along the line of Morris Island, and await further developments. Iii. 'Tis the seventh of April by the chime. We are lying off Charleston harbor. The sea smooth as a surface of burnished steel, is beneath and around us. Sumter looms up in plain sight, a sentinel in the middle of the entrance to the harbor, and the rising sun bathes its top in golden glory; but unlike that Memnon's statue, which gave forth music to the god of day, awakes from its frowning battlements only the hoarse clamor of the daybreak gun. A gentle north wind has blown away the haze, and a diaphanous atmosphere invites to the work before us. The plan of attack has been fully developed by Admiral Du Pont, and each captain of the iron fleet is provided with a copy of the official order for his guidance. I subjoin herewith a transcription if this document, and although, unhappily, the programme
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
printing. Co-los′sus. A statue of gigantic size. The largest statue in Egypt, according to Diodorus Siculus, was that of Osymandyas, in the Ramesion. It is the Memnonium of Strabo. The pedestal is still standing; the court around is filled with its fragments. The foot, of which parts remain, must have been 11 feet long and 4 feet 10 inches broad; the breadth across the shoulders 22 feet 4 inches; the hight is calculated at 54 feet, the weight 1,985,438 pounds. The statues of Memnon are 60 feet in hight, including the pedestal. The latter is 13 feet high, but is half buried in the alluvial soil. The material is a coarse, hard breccia, with imbedded chalcedonies. The southern figure is in one block. The northern one was broken before the Christian era, and was repaired with sandstone, in five pieces, by one of the Roman emperors, probably Severus. The colossi of antiquity (Greek and Roman) are enumerated in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, p. 322
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
r, zinc, and tin, used for statuary, generally known as bronze. The proportions of the metals used are indefinite. Analyses of Keller's statues at Versailles give copper, 91.4; zinc, 5.53; tin, 1.7; lead, 1.37. Gun-metal, containing copper 9, tin 1, is frequently employed See brass; bronze; alloy. Stat′u-a-ry-cast′ing. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus refer to massive statues set up in the temple of Belus, in Babylon, at a date supposed to be about 2230 B. C. The massive statues of Memnon, Osymandyas, and other Egyptian kings, are of stone, and attest a great degree of skill, so that it becomes impossible to determine when the arts of modeling and sculpture were invented in or introduced into the land of the Nile. The Egyptian statuettes are frequently of metal. The Roman Colossus set up by Nero, being a figure of himself, was placed before his Golden House, near the site of the temple of Venus, at Rome. It was of bronze, the work of Zenodorus, and Pliny gives its hight
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 3: community life (search)
the German of Ruchert), Mutual longing (from the German of Heine), To the Moon (from the German of Holty). The next year, 1846, he published the Bankrupt, Erotis, Patience (from the German of Spitta), The question (from the German of Heine), and Memnon. Of these Erotis is the longest and Memnon the best. Those of the last two years were all published in the Harbinger, from which they obtained some circulation, but I cannot learn that any of them outlived the year of its birth, or passed permaMemnon the best. Those of the last two years were all published in the Harbinger, from which they obtained some circulation, but I cannot learn that any of them outlived the year of its birth, or passed permanently into the literature of the period. Indeed, there is one good reason to believe that the author finally condemned them himself, for he enshrined none of them in the American Household Book of Poetry, a well-known and widely circulated book of the best short poems in the language, of which he was the compiler. He doubtless gave his own poetic children every consideration to which he thought they were entitled, as they were found among his personal effects clearly transcribed, and done up
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
uilding on the lawn by the side of the Athenaeum to receive it, and Greene is to pay us a visit, in the course of a fortnight, to superintend its restoration. How this accident occurred we cannot tell; but it was a great mistake to send it to Boston via; New York. It undoubtedly suffered by the transshipment. I cannot doubt that it was rolled over on the wharf, like a cotton-bag. . . . Adieu. Ever thine, C. S. To Dr. Lieber he wrote:— The Orpheus is on its pedestal; and, like Memnon, makes music with its beauty. It is thoroughly restored. The stranger, who knew nothing of the accident that befell it, might not dream that it was not fresh and whole from the artist's chisel. At a distance of eight feet I cannot discern the places of the juncture. It is an exquisite work of art, and the committee, who have seen it, are delighted with it. I have not studied its effect closely, but confessed its charm during the few moments that I saw it. The room will not be ready for t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Water-Lilies (search)
mblem of the sacred Nile,—as the Hindoo species, of the sacred Ganges; and each was held the symbol of the creation of the world from the waters. The sacred bull Apis was wreathed with its garlands; there were niches for water, to place it among tombs; it was carved in the capitals of columns; it was represented on plates and vases; the sculptures show it in many sacred uses, even as a burnt-offering; Isis holds it; and the god Nilus still binds a wreath of waterlilies around the throne of Memnon. From Egypt the Lotus was carried to Assyria, and Layard found it among fir-cones and honeysuckles on the later sculptures of Nineveh. The Greeks dedicated it to the nymphs, whence the name Nymphaea. Nor did the Romans disregard it, though the Lotus to which Ovid's nymph Lotis was changed, servato nomine, was a tree, and not a flower. Still different a thing was the enchanted stem of the Lotus-caters of Herodotus, which prosaic botanists have reduced to the Zizyphus Lotus found by Mungo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
ely to destruction. . . . . Mere action is no proof of progress; we make it our boast how much we do, and thus grow blind to what we do. Action here is the Minotaur which claims and devours our youths. Athens bewailed the seven who yearly left her shore; with us scarce seven remain, and we urge the victims to their fate. Apollonius of Tyana tells us in his Travels that he saw a youth, one of the blackest of the Indians, who had between his eyebrows a shining moon. Another youth named Memnon, the pupil of Herodes the Sophist, had this moon when he was young; but as he approached to man's estate, its light grew fainter and fainter, and finally vanished. The world should see with reverence on each youth's brow, as a shining moon, his fresh ideal. It should remember that he is already in the hands of a sophist more dangerous than Herodes, for that sophist is himself. It should watch, lest from too early and exclusive action, the moon on his brow, growing fainter and fainter, sho
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
ho fought a val'rous fight For us and native home and right, The gray against the blue. The conflict's o'er, the grass has greened Above the battle scars, And bravest victors help to lay Above the vanquished flowers to-day, Under the stripes and stars. They loved us and laid down their lives, What greater can men do? This sentiment marble, reared with tears, Shall tell to all the future years They died for me and you. Vibrating with the morning's beams 'Twill speak, in plaintive tone, As Memnon's statue thrilled of old, A witness if our hearts are cold, Or we've unthankful grown. A symbol 'tis of love to wreathe With blossoms ev'ry spring. An inspiration, for all high And noble aims, to live and die This monument shall bring. A grand anthem by the chorus closed the ceremonies, and was followed by the benediction, pronounced by Rev. Nowell Logan. It was a glorious day for Vicksburg, one unmarred by any unpleasant incidents. Many of the visitors have already departed, and mos
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
the stars in Chaldea's sky, How sounds the reverent pilgrim's tread, How beats the heart with God so nigh! How round gray arch and column lone The spirit of the old time broods, And sighs in all the winds that moan Along the sandy solitudes! In thy tall cedars, Lebanon, I have not heard the nations' cries, Nor seen thy eagles stooping down Where buried Tyre in ruin lies. The Christian's prayer I have not said In Tadmor's temples of decay, Nor startled, with my dreary tread, The waste where Memnon's empire lay. Nor have I, from thy hallowed tide, O Jordan! heard the low lament, Like that sad wail along thy side Which Israel's mournful prophet sent! Nor thrilled within that grotto lone Where, deep in night, the Bard of Kings Felt hands of fire direct his own, And sweep for God the conscious strings. I have not climbed to Olivet, Nor laid me where my Saviour lay, And left His trace of tears as yet By angel eyes unwept away; Nor watched, at midnight's solemn time, The garden where His
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