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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... become simplified by this method . Since illustrations of excursion , if the term may be allowed , impart beauty to strength ; colour to form ; variety to monotony ; and render more evident Nature's unison of systematic accordance . The ...
... become simplified by this method . Since illustrations of excursion , if the term may be allowed , impart beauty to strength ; colour to form ; variety to monotony ; and render more evident Nature's unison of systematic accordance . The ...
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... become irritated ; the two lobs rise up , grasp the insect , and crush it to death . The sensitive plant shrinks back and folds its leaves upon being touched , after the manner of a snail ; and a species of the hedysarum of Bengal has ...
... become irritated ; the two lobs rise up , grasp the insect , and crush it to death . The sensitive plant shrinks back and folds its leaves upon being touched , after the manner of a snail ; and a species of the hedysarum of Bengal has ...
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... become the parent of 500 others . Indeed polypi exhibit the most wonder- ful phenomena , in respect to propagation , of any objects in nature ; for they propagate like quadru- peds ; like insects ; like fishes ; and like plants . Some ...
... become the parent of 500 others . Indeed polypi exhibit the most wonder- ful phenomena , in respect to propagation , of any objects in nature ; for they propagate like quadru- peds ; like insects ; like fishes ; and like plants . Some ...
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... become maggots , and feed upon the live body of the cater- pillar , that matured them . The sphix genus of in- sects are less cruel : for they deposit their's only in spiders and caterpillars that are already dead . The oxfly lays its ...
... become maggots , and feed upon the live body of the cater- pillar , that matured them . The sphix genus of in- sects are less cruel : for they deposit their's only in spiders and caterpillars that are already dead . The oxfly lays its ...
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... become animated at the sound of trumpets ; and at the cry of dogs in the chase . Elephants delight in music ; the camel , when fatigued with a long journey over the Deserts , will revive in an instant , if its master sing loudly , or ...
... become animated at the sound of trumpets ; and at the cry of dogs in the chase . Elephants delight in music ; the camel , when fatigued with a long journey over the Deserts , will revive in an instant , if its master sing loudly , or ...
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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...