On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 1G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - Nature |
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... association , the mirror of time and the emblem of eternity are presented to our imagination ; till a retrospect of the past , and a perspective of future ages , mingling with each other , the mind is lost in the mazes of its own ...
... association , the mirror of time and the emblem of eternity are presented to our imagination ; till a retrospect of the past , and a perspective of future ages , mingling with each other , the mind is lost in the mazes of its own ...
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... waters with those of the ocean . is the majesty of Theodosius . His soul , calm and serene Such in the midst of vast projects , rises over the c 2 Poetical Allusions and Associations . 19 river, rising among the Alps. And Parnell adorns ...
... waters with those of the ocean . is the majesty of Theodosius . His soul , calm and serene Such in the midst of vast projects , rises over the c 2 Poetical Allusions and Associations . 19 river, rising among the Alps. And Parnell adorns ...
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... associations continually floating in the imagination , how delightful were it , in the season of autumn , to listen ... Association , vol . 1. p . 533 . 5 Lucan says , that Nature concealed the origin of this river , in order tha it ...
... associations continually floating in the imagination , how delightful were it , in the season of autumn , to listen ... Association , vol . 1. p . 533 . 5 Lucan says , that Nature concealed the origin of this river , in order tha it ...
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... associations , connected with rivers ! With the Nile we associate the rebuke of Apollonius of Tyana to the cruel natives of Egypt . " Reverence the Nile , " said he ; " but why do I mention the Nile among men , who prefer measuring the ...
... associations , connected with rivers ! With the Nile we associate the rebuke of Apollonius of Tyana to the cruel natives of Egypt . " Reverence the Nile , " said he ; " but why do I mention the Nile among men , who prefer measuring the ...
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... the victory she had gained ; for , having beheld Rithogar , she had become enamoured of him but her nobles prevented their union . Upon learning D 2 Historical Associations . 35 poop was of beaten gold; whose oars were of ...
... the victory she had gained ; for , having beheld Rithogar , she had become enamoured of him but her nobles prevented their union . Upon learning D 2 Historical Associations . 35 poop was of beaten gold; whose oars were of ...
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Page 244 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way? or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?
Page 89 - So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree.
Page 287 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 14 - The greenwood path to meet her brother: They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the Forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow!
Page 74 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 371 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 263 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 198 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came : and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves, And solitary walks. One morning early This accident encounter'd me : I heard The sweetest and most ravishing contention That art and nature ever were at strife in.
Page 168 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 19 - Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost.