The Quarterly review, Volume 12Murray, 1815 |
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... never has , and now in all pro- bability never will appear ) he claims for his nation the discovery of all the parts between Western - port in Bass's strait , and Nuyts archipelago , to which is given the name of Terre Napoléon ...
... never has , and now in all pro- bability never will appear ) he claims for his nation the discovery of all the parts between Western - port in Bass's strait , and Nuyts archipelago , to which is given the name of Terre Napoléon ...
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... never yet been re- turned , he had not the sagacity to secure the charts . It is on this ground we venture to predict , that although the second volume of M. Peron's voyage was sent to the press , it will either never be published , or ...
... never yet been re- turned , he had not the sagacity to secure the charts . It is on this ground we venture to predict , that although the second volume of M. Peron's voyage was sent to the press , it will either never be published , or ...
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... never having been trodden by the foot of man . Among other reasons for this conclusion , was the extraordinary stupidity stupidity of the kangaroos on the island of that name 24 Flinders's Voyage to Terra Australis . Ост .
... never having been trodden by the foot of man . Among other reasons for this conclusion , was the extraordinary stupidity stupidity of the kangaroos on the island of that name 24 Flinders's Voyage to Terra Australis . Ост .
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... never borne children in England , become prolific in New South Wales , and some of them at an age deemed generally past child - bearing . We do not imagine that the climate contributes to this effect , so much as the regular life they ...
... never borne children in England , become prolific in New South Wales , and some of them at an age deemed generally past child - bearing . We do not imagine that the climate contributes to this effect , so much as the regular life they ...
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... never descends to the freezing point , though the snow lies on the Blue Mountains . The native quadrupeds are all innocent , and few noxious animals of any description are found in the country . Vegetation is rapid , and the foliage of ...
... never descends to the freezing point , though the snow lies on the Blue Mountains . The native quadrupeds are all innocent , and few noxious animals of any description are found in the country . Vegetation is rapid , and the foliage of ...
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Page 73 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Page 509 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 87 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 87 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 103 - That steal upon the meditative mind, And grow with thought. Beside yon spring I stood, And eyed its waters till we seemed to feel One sadness, they and I. For them a bond \\ Of brotherhood is broken : time has been When, every day, the touch of human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they ministered To human comfort.
Page 102 - The thunder's greeting. Nor have nature's laws Left them ungifted with a power to yield Music of finer tone ; a harmony, So do I call it, though it be the hand Of silence, though there be no voice ; — the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither — touch, And have an answer — thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits...
Page 105 - Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea with her own incorporated, by power Capacious and serene ; like power abides In Man's celestial Spirit ; Virtue thus Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds A calm, a beautiful, and silent fire, From the incumbrances of mortal life, From error, disappointment, — nay from guilt ; And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills, From palpable oppressions of Despair.
Page 191 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Page 103 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.