On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations, Volume 21837 |
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... death ; but , for- tunately , it was discovered in time to be prevented . He placed this man alone , with some provisions , on a small island in Quaker Harbour ; and , in the course of three weeks , so great a change was made in his ...
... death ; but , for- tunately , it was discovered in time to be prevented . He placed this man alone , with some provisions , on a small island in Quaker Harbour ; and , in the course of three weeks , so great a change was made in his ...
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... Death of Abel " is almost worthy the pen of Moses ; his " First Navigator " combines all the fancy of the poet , with the primeval simpli- city of the patriarch ; and his “ Idyls " are captivating to all , but the pedant and the ...
... Death of Abel " is almost worthy the pen of Moses ; his " First Navigator " combines all the fancy of the poet , with the primeval simpli- city of the patriarch ; and his “ Idyls " are captivating to all , but the pedant and the ...
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... death , is compared to the music of a dying swan , is the most beautiful in Plato . Brumoy compares Eschylus to a torrent , rolling over rocks and precipices ; Sophocles to a rivulet flowing through a delightful garden ; and Euripides ...
... death , is compared to the music of a dying swan , is the most beautiful in Plato . Brumoy compares Eschylus to a torrent , rolling over rocks and precipices ; Sophocles to a rivulet flowing through a delightful garden ; and Euripides ...
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... death he exclaimed , " we are all going to Heaven , and Vandyke will be of the party . " In the exhibition of moonlight pieces , WRIGHT of Derby had no competitor , worthy of himself . His picture of the Lady in Comus is one of the ...
... death he exclaimed , " we are all going to Heaven , and Vandyke will be of the party . " In the exhibition of moonlight pieces , WRIGHT of Derby had no competitor , worthy of himself . His picture of the Lady in Comus is one of the ...
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... than the minute descriptions of Ovid ; the nervous brevity of Lucretius defines more clearly to the mental eye , than all the profuse delineations of Cow- ley and the obscure image of death , in Milton 162 ON THE BEAUTIES , HARMONIES ,
... than the minute descriptions of Ovid ; the nervous brevity of Lucretius defines more clearly to the mental eye , than all the profuse delineations of Cow- ley and the obscure image of death , in Milton 162 ON THE BEAUTIES , HARMONIES ,
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Page 426 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 392 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 425 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 407 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 57 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Page 267 - Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 128 - Est in secessu longo locus : insula portum Efficit objectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto Frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.
Page 351 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 382 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Page 207 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :