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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... bears so great an affinity with the rollers , toucans , and orioles , that it is reasonable to suppose it to have originally Jer . Lib . xiii . st . 41 . 2 Faerie Queene , c . ii . st . 30 . sprung from an union between some of those ...
... bears so great an affinity with the rollers , toucans , and orioles , that it is reasonable to suppose it to have originally Jer . Lib . xiii . st . 41 . 2 Faerie Queene , c . ii . st . 30 . sprung from an union between some of those ...
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... bear analogies even with these the tamarind closes upon its fruit , when the sun has set , in order to preserve it from the dew ; and in Ceylon and in Java grows a plant ' remarkable for having a small vegetable bag attached to the base ...
... bear analogies even with these the tamarind closes upon its fruit , when the sun has set , in order to preserve it from the dew ; and in Ceylon and in Java grows a plant ' remarkable for having a small vegetable bag attached to the base ...
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... others none , like many insects . A Some plants bear fruit on the backs of their leaves : as spleenwort , maiden hair , fern , brake , pepper grass , and many species of moss . After the 12 Plants - Insects - Lizards .
... others none , like many insects . A Some plants bear fruit on the backs of their leaves : as spleenwort , maiden hair , fern , brake , pepper grass , and many species of moss . After the 12 Plants - Insects - Lizards .
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... bear some affinity with the attica - tree of Ceylon , which produces fruit from the trunk and branches without flowering . The cryptogamia class of plants , also , entirely conceal their fructification . Indeed it is impossible to ...
... bear some affinity with the attica - tree of Ceylon , which produces fruit from the trunk and branches without flowering . The cryptogamia class of plants , also , entirely conceal their fructification . Indeed it is impossible to ...
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... bear a great affinity with antelopes . The Arctic walrus sleeps with a herd , consisting of many hundreds , on the islands of ice along the coast of Spitzbergen , and Nova Zembla ; Hudson's Bay ; the Gulph of St. Lawrence ; and the Icy ...
... bear a great affinity with antelopes . The Arctic walrus sleeps with a herd , consisting of many hundreds , on the islands of ice along the coast of Spitzbergen , and Nova Zembla ; Hudson's Bay ; the Gulph of St. Lawrence ; and the Icy ...
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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...