On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, 1. kötetG. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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14. oldal
... passage , in a small ballad of Logan , where , describing the wan- derings of a mother and sister , the poet heightens the solemn simplicity of the scene , by alluding to the roar of the stream , that winded through the forest . His ...
... passage , in a small ballad of Logan , where , describing the wan- derings of a mother and sister , the poet heightens the solemn simplicity of the scene , by alluding to the roar of the stream , that winded through the forest . His ...
15. oldal
... passages in Exodus . There was no water , says the text , for the people to drink ; and they murmured . Moses struck the rock in Horeb with his rod ; a fountain gushed forth ; and the people drank till they were satisfied1 . VI ...
... passages in Exodus . There was no water , says the text , for the people to drink ; and they murmured . Moses struck the rock in Horeb with his rod ; a fountain gushed forth ; and the people drank till they were satisfied1 . VI ...
27. oldal
... passage , which has been more imitated than any other in that poet . Claudian began the imitation ; and it has been followed by Tasso , Chaucer , Spenser , Dray- ton , and Rapin 5. Lucan and Claudian , after the same manner , have ...
... passage , which has been more imitated than any other in that poet . Claudian began the imitation ; and it has been followed by Tasso , Chaucer , Spenser , Dray- ton , and Rapin 5. Lucan and Claudian , after the same manner , have ...
31. oldal
... passage in Justin . xliii . c . 5 . Frensheimius ' Supplement to Livy , 2d dec . lib . vi . Vide Montesquieu's Remarks , b . xxi . ch . 8 . of Justinian , when the right of fishing in particular Wandering on the Banks of Rivers . 31.
... passage in Justin . xliii . c . 5 . Frensheimius ' Supplement to Livy , 2d dec . lib . vi . Vide Montesquieu's Remarks , b . xxi . ch . 8 . of Justinian , when the right of fishing in particular Wandering on the Banks of Rivers . 31.
55. oldal
... passage , where he describes the close of his vast undertaking , peculiarly impressive . " I have presumed to mark , " says he , " the moment of conception , ( amid the ruins of Rome ; ) I shall now com- memorate the hour of my final ...
... passage , where he describes the close of his vast undertaking , peculiarly impressive . " I have presumed to mark , " says he , " the moment of conception , ( amid the ruins of Rome ; ) I shall now com- memorate the hour of my final ...
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55. oldal - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
246. oldal - 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?
91. oldal - 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.
170. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "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.
14. oldal - 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!
287. oldal - 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.
76. oldal - 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.
371. oldal - 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...
55. oldal - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
263. oldal - 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!