The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., Volume 1Tobias Merton (pseud) 1824 |
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... Melville Island . The opi- nion of several naturalists that the white bear sleeps in caverns of ice throughout the winter season , would in some measure account for the appearance of so few to our circumnavigators . But Fabricius ...
... Melville Island . The opi- nion of several naturalists that the white bear sleeps in caverns of ice throughout the winter season , would in some measure account for the appearance of so few to our circumnavigators . But Fabricius ...
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... islands in the summer months , but being less numerous than the rein - deer , and more difficult to approach , three individuals only were killed , all of which were bulls . They arrived in Melville Island in the middle of May , cross ...
... islands in the summer months , but being less numerous than the rein - deer , and more difficult to approach , three individuals only were killed , all of which were bulls . They arrived in Melville Island in the middle of May , cross ...
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... islands in the Polar sea , it is remarked , generally , " that they arrive in May , and depart with their young ... Melville Island in June 1820. " The variations observed in this class of animated nature , are , in a popular point ...
... islands in the Polar sea , it is remarked , generally , " that they arrive in May , and depart with their young ... Melville Island in June 1820. " The variations observed in this class of animated nature , are , in a popular point ...
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... Melville Island , so much farther to the North , they had found the season much earlier . - There was an increased quantity of open sea visible , but nothing to promise a speedy release . On the 3d of June the ships were 2,300 feet from ...
... Melville Island , so much farther to the North , they had found the season much earlier . - There was an increased quantity of open sea visible , but nothing to promise a speedy release . On the 3d of June the ships were 2,300 feet from ...
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admiration amidst Anacreon ancient appear arms Arnold attention beauty body bosom breast bright Callao Callisthenes Captain character charms colours daughter death delight earth effect Ellen endeavoured fair fancy father favour fear feeling gaze Guatemala gudesire Guiscald hand happy heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope hour interesting King lady live look Lord Lord Byron Louis of Taranto Lysimachus Melville Island Melville Peninsula mind morning nature never night noble o'er object observed once passed passion peace person pleasure poor possessed present racter readers Redgauntlet Repulse Bay Riga scene seemed shew sigh smile soon sorrow soul spirit Steenie sweet taste tear of grief tears theatre thee thing thou thought tion Twas voice Weimar Whigs Winter Island wonder word young youth
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Página 73 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Página 358 - twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold: Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Página 358 - Twas, on those little silver feet! With what a pretty, skipping grace It oft would challenge me the race ! And when 't had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay; For it was nimbler, much, than hinds, And trod as if on the four winds.
Página 32 - Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue. But now the day was come, the day, the hour; Now, frowning, smiling, for the hundredth...
Página 414 - I will delate you for a warlock to the privy council!' said Sir John. 'I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch ! ' 'I intend to delate mysell to the presbytery,' said Steenie, ' and tell them all I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
Página 225 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Página 28 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Página 100 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Página 405 - Court, wi' the king's ain sword ; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it ; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other. Redgauntlet was aye for the strong hand ; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tarn Dalyell's.
Página 416 - Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute. Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o...