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... zodiac is copied from that inserted in Spence's Polymetis , which was engraved from the reliefs on the globe , supported by the statue of Atlas in the Vatican at Rome . are usually drawn , it will be seen that Ireland 5.
... zodiac is copied from that inserted in Spence's Polymetis , which was engraved from the reliefs on the globe , supported by the statue of Atlas in the Vatican at Rome . are usually drawn , it will be seen that Ireland 5.
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Robert Deverell. are usually drawn , it will be seen that Ireland has a strong likeness to the head of a ram , its face looking southward , the brow at Wexford , nose at Cape Clear , and its horn winding round the pro- vince of Connaught ...
Robert Deverell. are usually drawn , it will be seen that Ireland has a strong likeness to the head of a ram , its face looking southward , the brow at Wexford , nose at Cape Clear , and its horn winding round the pro- vince of Connaught ...
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... seen in the zodiac in the frontispiece of this volume , may be con- sidered as looking downwards rather than back- wards ( owing , I imagine , to an error in the original draftsman or engraver ; ) but in the zodiac en- graved among the ...
... seen in the zodiac in the frontispiece of this volume , may be con- sidered as looking downwards rather than back- wards ( owing , I imagine , to an error in the original draftsman or engraver ; ) but in the zodiac en- graved among the ...
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... seen on inspect- ing the map , to resemble two boys , the head and face of the one situate in the smaller gulf of Mexico , and those of the other in the gulf of Panama , by Terra Firma , with their arms appa- rently intertwined together ...
... seen on inspect- ing the map , to resemble two boys , the head and face of the one situate in the smaller gulf of Mexico , and those of the other in the gulf of Panama , by Terra Firma , with their arms appa- rently intertwined together ...
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... seen to resemble a lion , in half profile , fronting the Pacific . Its left eye may be conceived to be formed of the circular or oval sea of Corea , as lying between Japan and Tartary ; the left cheek , in profile , by the Isles of ...
... seen to resemble a lion , in half profile , fronting the Pacific . Its left eye may be conceived to be formed of the circular or oval sea of Corea , as lying between Japan and Tartary ; the left cheek , in profile , by the Isles of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles Æneid Africa allude allusion alum ancient Andromache appear apprehend Arabian Gulf Bay of Honduras called Cape character China Chinese Chryseis circumstance coast Comus constellation contain Cuba derived disease drawn in fig Egypt epithet explained expression fable fever figure following lines further Gemini Greek gum lac head Hector hieroglyphics Homer Iliad implied intended island Jardin Lady Mamore means mentioned moon mountains mouth noticed observed Odyssey passage perhaps Persian Gulf Peruvian bark pestilence plague of Athens poem poet poetical Priam prototype reader reference remarkable represented resemblance seems shape shew side situate South America Spain Straits supposed Tartary Taurus tion tropic tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land volcanoes volume West India Gulf word zodiac Αλλ αρ γαρ δε δη εκ εν ενι επει επι ες και μεν ος περι τε τοι
Passagens conhecidas
Página 151 - That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence?
Página 89 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Página 227 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 85 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 276 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Página 149 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 159 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Página 216 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.
Página 138 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Página 166 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...