The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 11821 |
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... Melville Island , in North - west Passage . The Lords of the former expedition . They advanced to long . honour of the distinguished statesman , now Admiralty , as we are led to believe , from a 89. W. , discovered two considerable islands ...
... Melville Island , in North - west Passage . The Lords of the former expedition . They advanced to long . honour of the distinguished statesman , now Admiralty , as we are led to believe , from a 89. W. , discovered two considerable islands ...
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... Melville Island . Every thing was soon made snug for the formidable winter of these regions . The officers and crews formed various plans for passing the dreary days , or rather nights of the polar regions . Plays were performed by the ...
... Melville Island . Every thing was soon made snug for the formidable winter of these regions . The officers and crews formed various plans for passing the dreary days , or rather nights of the polar regions . Plays were performed by the ...
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... island , whose western boundary may be in a line drawn from Foxes Farthest ... Melville land , the land appears not continuous , but roken into islands ... Melville filled every part of the summer landscape with life Island . 3. That the ...
... island , whose western boundary may be in a line drawn from Foxes Farthest ... Melville land , the land appears not continuous , but roken into islands ... Melville filled every part of the summer landscape with life Island . 3. That the ...
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... Melville Island . In the beginning of November their night began , and it lasted till the beginning of February 1820 , when the sun was seen for a few minutes above the horizon . This luminary gradually prolonged the time dur- ing which ...
... Melville Island . In the beginning of November their night began , and it lasted till the beginning of February 1820 , when the sun was seen for a few minutes above the horizon . This luminary gradually prolonged the time dur- ing which ...
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... Melville Island . Onions and leeks refused to grow . In the ships small salad was produced for invalids ; happily , the scurvy never got the ascend- ancy . issue thence ; and therefore , that though the Polar Sea was attained from ...
... Melville Island . Onions and leeks refused to grow . In the ships small salad was produced for invalids ; happily , the scurvy never got the ascend- ancy . issue thence ; and therefore , that though the Polar Sea was attained from ...
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Página 60 - Of the invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 60 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 60 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 60 - Dark-heaving : boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Página 159 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ?...
Página 60 - Roll on thou deep, and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain, Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 166 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 225 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Página 114 - I am always of easy faith in such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men ; and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the same. What is it to us, whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them, and enjoy all the charm of the reality ? There is nothing like resolute...
Página 138 - I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader.