Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In which the Geography, Character, Customs, and Manners of Nations are Described, and the Phenomena of Nature, Most Worthy of Observation, are Illustrated on Scientific PrinciplesG. & W.B. Whittaker, 1820 - 506 páginas |
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... present intended tour , and which will so greatly enlarge your understanding , I shall volunteer a geological description of the earth upon the surface of which we are about to peregrinate ; as to its productions they will present ...
... present intended tour , and which will so greatly enlarge your understanding , I shall volunteer a geological description of the earth upon the surface of which we are about to peregrinate ; as to its productions they will present ...
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... present islands and continents were formed , while the sea still occupies in parts its original bed . Such is a brief outline of Burnet's romance , which will still be read with some profit , though certainly with more pleasure , even ...
... present islands and continents were formed , while the sea still occupies in parts its original bed . Such is a brief outline of Burnet's romance , which will still be read with some profit , though certainly with more pleasure , even ...
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... forming a theory of the earth , with the pomp and circumstance of Buffon . It merits attention , as Mr. Brande says , not on account of its ac- cordance with present appearances , or as affording plausible solutions 6 INTRODUCTION .
... forming a theory of the earth , with the pomp and circumstance of Buffon . It merits attention , as Mr. Brande says , not on account of its ac- cordance with present appearances , or as affording plausible solutions 6 INTRODUCTION .
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... present appearances , or as affording plausible solutions of observed phenomena , but from the eloquence with which it is adorned , the extent of information it displays , and the popularity it derived from these sources . " Buffon ...
... present appearances , or as affording plausible solutions of observed phenomena , but from the eloquence with which it is adorned , the extent of information it displays , and the popularity it derived from these sources . " Buffon ...
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... present day are the inven- tions of Professor Werner , of Freyburgh , and Dr. James Hutton , of Edinburgh ; each of these has been ably supported and elucidated by the proofs , illustrations , and comparative views of acute and eloquent ...
... present day are the inven- tions of Professor Werner , of Freyburgh , and Dr. James Hutton , of Edinburgh ; each of these has been ably supported and elucidated by the proofs , illustrations , and comparative views of acute and eloquent ...
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Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In ... Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) Visualização integral - 1820 |
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Página 225 - Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 148 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Página 378 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Página 210 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 225 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 29 - ... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles, well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains, with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot...
Página 95 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Página 225 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 471 - Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of Nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely bless'd, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 494 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.