A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... continued equal , though the diameters of them all were constantly changing . The last of them was very faint ; and at a considerable distance was another great white circle , which surrounded the whole . As near as M. Bouguer could com ...
... continued equal , though the diameters of them all were constantly changing . The last of them was very faint ; and at a considerable distance was another great white circle , which surrounded the whole . As near as M. Bouguer could com ...
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... continued to increase : the French revolution for some time augmented them ; and when , after 1796 , Germany felt the shock of invasion , Hamburgh was secure under the protection of Prussia . It thus preserved its independence amid all ...
... continued to increase : the French revolution for some time augmented them ; and when , after 1796 , Germany felt the shock of invasion , Hamburgh was secure under the protection of Prussia . It thus preserved its independence amid all ...
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... continued there till the parliament visitors ejected and imprisoned him . During this con- finement he began his Annotations on the New Testament . On the 4th of April 1660 he was seized by a fit of the stone , of which he died on the ...
... continued there till the parliament visitors ejected and imprisoned him . During this con- finement he began his Annotations on the New Testament . On the 4th of April 1660 he was seized by a fit of the stone , of which he died on the ...
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... continued to compose one every week for three years . At fourteen he far excelled his master , and was sent to Berlin . The opera was then encouraged by Frederick I. king of Prussia , and under the direction of Buonon- cini , Attilio ...
... continued to compose one every week for three years . At fourteen he far excelled his master , and was sent to Berlin . The opera was then encouraged by Frederick I. king of Prussia , and under the direction of Buonon- cini , Attilio ...
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... continued till within eight days of his death . During the lat- ter part of his life his mind was often disordered , yet at times it appears to have resumed its full vigor , and he composed several songs , choruses , & c . From October ...
... continued till within eight days of his death . During the lat- ter part of his life his mind was often disordered , yet at times it appears to have resumed its full vigor , and he composed several songs , choruses , & c . From October ...
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Página 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Página 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Página 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Página 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.