On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, 1권G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... object the render- ing of the Tagus navigable to Madrid . After ma- ture deliberation , the ingenuity of the engineer , and the advantages derivable from his project , were acknow- ledged by the ministry ; but the execution they thought ...
... object the render- ing of the Tagus navigable to Madrid . After ma- ture deliberation , the ingenuity of the engineer , and the advantages derivable from his project , were acknow- ledged by the ministry ; but the execution they thought ...
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... objects more various , landscapes more rich , or scenes more graceful and mag- nificent ? In Africa , the most delightful of all beautiful objects is a river ; and the weary and exhausted traveller , over its burning deserts , calls out ...
... objects more various , landscapes more rich , or scenes more graceful and mag- nificent ? In Africa , the most delightful of all beautiful objects is a river ; and the weary and exhausted traveller , over its burning deserts , calls out ...
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... objects and ideas , apparently at wide distances from each other . The sinuosi- ties of the Meander gave Dædalus the first conception of a labyrinth ; and who would suppose , in the first in- stance , that our familiar word rival ...
... objects and ideas , apparently at wide distances from each other . The sinuosi- ties of the Meander gave Dædalus the first conception of a labyrinth ; and who would suppose , in the first in- stance , that our familiar word rival ...
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... objects of curiosity and re- search and it is curious to remark , that the Gambia , the Senegal , and the Niger , should not only rise in the same line of latitude ; but that the first should flow to the west , the second to the north ...
... objects of curiosity and re- search and it is curious to remark , that the Gambia , the Senegal , and the Niger , should not only rise in the same line of latitude ; but that the first should flow to the west , the second to the north ...
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... objects in life . How often , when reclining on the margin of the Dee , under the hanging rocks of the Conway , the ... object around me would operate as an evidence of the justice and bene- ficence of the Eternal Power ! X. It is well ...
... objects in life . How often , when reclining on the margin of the Dee , under the hanging rocks of the Conway , the ... object around me would operate as an evidence of the justice and bene- ficence of the Eternal Power ! X. It is well ...
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244 페이지 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way? or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?
89 페이지 - So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree.
287 페이지 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
14 페이지 - The greenwood path to meet her brother: They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the Forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow!
74 페이지 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
371 페이지 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
263 페이지 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
198 페이지 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came : and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
168 페이지 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
19 페이지 - Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost.