On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 3G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... admirable Sir W. Jones . This de- rangement , however , was partial ; being chiefly ex- hibited in her eating little or nothing but herbs ; in walking on high pattens in the midst of summer ; in 1 Phil . Mag . vol . li . p . 152 . 2 ...
... admirable Sir W. Jones . This de- rangement , however , was partial ; being chiefly ex- hibited in her eating little or nothing but herbs ; in walking on high pattens in the midst of summer ; in 1 Phil . Mag . vol . li . p . 152 . 2 ...
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... admired for its use , than for the exquisite beauty of its mechanism ; and that the loss of the power of exercising its functions is more sensibly felt , than the loss of those appertaining to sight , is proved by the circumstance of ...
... admired for its use , than for the exquisite beauty of its mechanism ; and that the loss of the power of exercising its functions is more sensibly felt , than the loss of those appertaining to sight , is proved by the circumstance of ...
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... admiration , and to overwhelm the faculties of the soul . Though deserts present such terrible images to the mind , there are circumstances , connected with their history , that are not wanting in the power of present- ing fascinations ...
... admiration , and to overwhelm the faculties of the soul . Though deserts present such terrible images to the mind , there are circumstances , connected with their history , that are not wanting in the power of present- ing fascinations ...
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... admiring the man , who " strives with fortune to be just . " Job was a dweller on the borders of the deserts . The book , which commemorates his virtues and his misfortunes , seems to have been written expressly for the purpose of ...
... admiring the man , who " strives with fortune to be just . " Job was a dweller on the borders of the deserts . The book , which commemorates his virtues and his misfortunes , seems to have been written expressly for the purpose of ...
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... admiration of posterity . In fact , there is not one evil , that does not arise out of the inability of men to estimate real benefits . - Sir John Chardin seems to have given the tone to the opinions of Du Bos . " The temperature of hot ...
... admiration of posterity . In fact , there is not one evil , that does not arise out of the inability of men to estimate real benefits . - Sir John Chardin seems to have given the tone to the opinions of Du Bos . " The temperature of hot ...
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Página 259 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 260 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 208 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 261 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of...
Página 314 - 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 215 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...
Página 254 - O Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey." observing,
Página 252 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Página 76 - 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. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.
Página 321 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...