The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various Objects of Nature Throughout the Year; with Poetical Illus., and Moral Reflections on Each Subject, Volume 1Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817 |
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... Virgil , in a fine specimen of that variety , that magic art which constitutes one of the greatest beauties of poetry , suddenly conv conveys his reader from the pastoral scenes of Africa to the pictur- esque horrors of a Scythian ...
... Virgil , in a fine specimen of that variety , that magic art which constitutes one of the greatest beauties of poetry , suddenly conv conveys his reader from the pastoral scenes of Africa to the pictur- esque horrors of a Scythian ...
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... VIRGIL . The winds redouble , and the rains augment : The waves on heaps are dashed against the shore , And now the woods , and now the billows roar . DRYDEN . AS Winter unfolds his awful train , ' vapours , and clouds , and storms ...
... VIRGIL . The winds redouble , and the rains augment : The waves on heaps are dashed against the shore , And now the woods , and now the billows roar . DRYDEN . AS Winter unfolds his awful train , ' vapours , and clouds , and storms ...
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... Virgil , in the first book of his Æneid , gives the description of a storm , which , as Mr. Spence ob- serves , probably set all the Roman poets a storm- painting . Thomson also gives a minute and pictur- esque description , with ...
... Virgil , in the first book of his Æneid , gives the description of a storm , which , as Mr. Spence ob- serves , probably set all the Roman poets a storm- painting . Thomson also gives a minute and pictur- esque description , with ...
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... dissolve them by fire . Virgil speaks of hewing wine , in his description of a Scythian winter ; Cæduntque securibus humida vina . genous and azotic gas : it must , therefore , c4 NO . IV . On Winter in the Polar Regions . 31.
... dissolve them by fire . Virgil speaks of hewing wine , in his description of a Scythian winter ; Cæduntque securibus humida vina . genous and azotic gas : it must , therefore , c4 NO . IV . On Winter in the Polar Regions . 31.
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... Virgil , and Tasso , who have been copied by Milton , in his fine comparison of Satan to a comet : Incensed with indignation , Satan stood Unterrified , and like a comet burned , That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the arctic sky ...
... Virgil , and Tasso , who have been copied by Milton , in his fine comparison of Satan to a comet : Incensed with indignation , Satan stood Unterrified , and like a comet burned , That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the arctic sky ...
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