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Page xxvi
... wonder if fome of his no- blest pieces are the product of this delightful ex- curfion . He returns , however , with apparent fatisfaction to take a laft furvey of the fofter fum- mer of our ifland ; and after clofing the profpect of ...
... wonder if fome of his no- blest pieces are the product of this delightful ex- curfion . He returns , however , with apparent fatisfaction to take a laft furvey of the fofter fum- mer of our ifland ; and after clofing the profpect of ...
Page xxxii
... wonder and admiration the most incurious fpectator . The effects of cold are more fudden , and in many inftances more extraordinary and unexpected than thofe of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable pro → ductions of even a northern ...
... wonder and admiration the most incurious fpectator . The effects of cold are more fudden , and in many inftances more extraordinary and unexpected than thofe of heat . He who has beheld the vegetable pro → ductions of even a northern ...
Page xxxiv
... wonders of the icy fea , and volcanoes " flaming thro ' a waste of snow ; " are objects judiciously selected from all that Nature prefents most fingular and striking in the various domains of boreal cold and wintry defolation . THUS ...
... wonders of the icy fea , and volcanoes " flaming thro ' a waste of snow ; " are objects judiciously selected from all that Nature prefents most fingular and striking in the various domains of boreal cold and wintry defolation . THUS ...
Page xxxix
... Wonder and furprize are affections of fo diffe- rent a kind , and fo diftract the attention , that they never fail to diminish the force of the pa- thetic . On these accounts , writers much inferi- or in respect to the powers of ...
... Wonder and furprize are affections of fo diffe- rent a kind , and fo diftract the attention , that they never fail to diminish the force of the pa- thetic . On these accounts , writers much inferi- or in respect to the powers of ...
Page xliii
... wonders ; the planner and architect of this mighty fabric , every mi- nute part of which fo much awakens his curi- ofity and admiration . The laws by which this being acts , the ends which he feems to have pursued , muft excite his ...
... wonders ; the planner and architect of this mighty fabric , every mi- nute part of which fo much awakens his curi- ofity and admiration . The laws by which this being acts , the ends which he feems to have pursued , muft excite his ...
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amid beauty beneath bloom bofom boundleſs breaſt breathes breeze cloſe clouds courſe croud deep defcend defcription earth ether exalts facred fair brow fancy feafon fecret fhade fhines fhore fhower filent fing firft firſt flame fleep flocks flood fnows focial foft fome fong fons foreft foul ftill ftorm ftream fuch funk fwell gale gloom grove heart heaven hills itſelf laft landſkip laſt lefs loft looſe luftre mingled mix'd moſt mountains Mufe Muſe muſt Nature Nature's night o'er paffions pleaſure Poet rage raiſe rifing riſe roll round rural ruſhing ſcarce ſcene ſeaſon ſeem ſenſe ſhade ſhake ſhe ſhining ſhoot ſky ſmiling ſoul ſpirit ſpread Spring ſtate ſtill ſtores ſtorm ſweep ſwift tempeft thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro toil treaſures vale vex'd virtue wafte waſte wave whofe whoſe wild winds wing Winter wintry wiſdom woods