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... considered as the first . The sign established from time immemorial as the first , is Aries , the Ram : and whether the choice of it as such was altogether the effect of accident , or proceeded upon more solid reasons , it is not to be ...
... considered as the first . The sign established from time immemorial as the first , is Aries , the Ram : and whether the choice of it as such was altogether the effect of accident , or proceeded upon more solid reasons , it is not to be ...
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... considered as a discovery ; and that it was made by the old continent is next to a certainty , from the immemorially abject state of the human species ( which must necessarily , there- fore , have been incurious and unenterprizing ) in ...
... considered as a discovery ; and that it was made by the old continent is next to a certainty , from the immemorially abject state of the human species ( which must necessarily , there- fore , have been incurious and unenterprizing ) in ...
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... the bow , so as to include in its line the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia , and then take in the volcanoes in the Lipari Isles , and that of Vesuvius , as additional arrows ; this , when the figure is not considered 27.
... the bow , so as to include in its line the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia , and then take in the volcanoes in the Lipari Isles , and that of Vesuvius , as additional arrows ; this , when the figure is not considered 27.
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Robert Deverell. arrows ; this , when the figure is not considered , or drawn as shooting backwards , would seem to be necessary . Capricornus . There has hitherto been little reference to the vast continent of Africa , but this sign , I ...
Robert Deverell. arrows ; this , when the figure is not considered , or drawn as shooting backwards , would seem to be necessary . Capricornus . There has hitherto been little reference to the vast continent of Africa , but this sign , I ...
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... considered as bearing one water vessel only ) is to be ascribed to the largest river in the world , the Plate , which vast wevos Toтuos might well merit so much notice as to constitute one of the twelve signs ; but as in respect of its ...
... considered as bearing one water vessel only ) is to be ascribed to the largest river in the world , the Plate , which vast wevos Toтuos might well merit so much notice as to constitute one of the twelve signs ; but as in respect of its ...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 5-6 Robert Deverell Visualização integral - 1813 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles Æneid Africa Agamemnon allude allusion alum ancient Andromache appear apprehend Arabian Gulf bark Bay of Honduras called Cape character China Chinese Chryseis circumstance coast Comus constellation contain Cuba derived disease disguise drawn in Fig Egypt enigmatical epithet explained expression fable fever figure following lines Gemini Greek gum lac head Hector hero hieroglyphics Homer Iliad implied intended island Isle Jardin Lady Mamore means mentioned moon mountains mouth noticed observed Odyssey passage perhaps Persian Gulf Peruvian bark pestilence poem poet poetical Priam prototype reader reference remarkable represented resemblance seems seen shape shew side South America Spain Straits supposed Tartary tion tropic tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land vast volcanoes volume waters West India Gulf word zodiac Αλλ αρ γαρ δε δη εκ εν ενι επει επι ες και μεν ος περι τε τοι
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Página 158 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 89 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Página 85 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 225 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 274 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Página 149 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 133 - Was rife, and perfect in my listening ear; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 194 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute.
Página 159 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Página 214 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.