The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volumes 3-4Simpkin & Marshall, 1836 - Science |
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... interesting and curious portions of the work , though his ill - judging critics have , with singularly bad taste , characterized it among the dullest and most wearisome , the gallery of portraits there exhibited , is finished with ...
... interesting and curious portions of the work , though his ill - judging critics have , with singularly bad taste , characterized it among the dullest and most wearisome , the gallery of portraits there exhibited , is finished with ...
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... interesting questions , which , at the first glance , it may appear difficult to answer in a satisfactory manner . Why a man , who was thus forward to assist the progress of just and liberal views among his fellow citizens - whose ...
... interesting questions , which , at the first glance , it may appear difficult to answer in a satisfactory manner . Why a man , who was thus forward to assist the progress of just and liberal views among his fellow citizens - whose ...
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... interesting . " They ( alluding to the minis- ters who tyrannized over Scotland , in the reign of strumpets and Charles II . ) , had such an imagination of some service I might do them , that they treated me with a very particular ...
... interesting . " They ( alluding to the minis- ters who tyrannized over Scotland , in the reign of strumpets and Charles II . ) , had such an imagination of some service I might do them , that they treated me with a very particular ...
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... interesting papers in former numbers of " The Analyst ; " more especially that on Charles II , which was executed in so masterly a style as to obtain the unqualified approbation of one of the most accurate thinkers upon all curious ...
... interesting papers in former numbers of " The Analyst ; " more especially that on Charles II , which was executed in so masterly a style as to obtain the unqualified approbation of one of the most accurate thinkers upon all curious ...
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... interesting genus are so similar ) it would be very difficult to hit on an appropriate specific name , either in vernacular or scientific nomenclature.- " Aquatica " does not distinguish the species , in the present system , though in ...
... interesting genus are so similar ) it would be very difficult to hit on an appropriate specific name , either in vernacular or scientific nomenclature.- " Aquatica " does not distinguish the species , in the present system , though in ...
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Page 177 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 193 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Page 225 - ... Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave ' of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more ! to all the house : Glamis hath murdered sleep; and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more .
Page 102 - O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute; so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.
Page 225 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 44 - Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, • And dreams in their developement have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being...
Page 248 - But, as when the sun approaching toward the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
Page 224 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Page 49 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 58 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.