On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volumen4G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... once , and every street thronged with women and children , or desolated with the dying and the dead , nothing could exceed their rage and dis- appointment ! And yet , had the ruins , which every where presented themselves , existed for ...
... once , and every street thronged with women and children , or desolated with the dying and the dead , nothing could exceed their rage and dis- appointment ! And yet , had the ruins , which every where presented themselves , existed for ...
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... once mighty city , should be transported from their native soil to adorn the palaces of Naples ! Alas ! how much more fallen now has become the City of the World , once the " delight and beauty of the universe ; " - raising its ...
... once mighty city , should be transported from their native soil to adorn the palaces of Naples ! Alas ! how much more fallen now has become the City of the World , once the " delight and beauty of the universe ; " - raising its ...
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... once in this valley my eye was arrested by a misletoe , growing out of an oak . This circum- stance gave interest to the whole landscape ; for it re- called the history of the Druids . In imagination , I beheld the Arch - druid ascend ...
... once in this valley my eye was arrested by a misletoe , growing out of an oak . This circum- stance gave interest to the whole landscape ; for it re- called the history of the Druids . In imagination , I beheld the Arch - druid ascend ...
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... once confessed to a common friend of our own , that , for five and twenty years , she never indulged the passion of hope , in reference to any thing , connected with the world ! →→ Secluded from all the natural sympathies of life ...
... once confessed to a common friend of our own , that , for five and twenty years , she never indulged the passion of hope , in reference to any thing , connected with the world ! →→ Secluded from all the natural sympathies of life ...
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... once constituted the city of Petra , the capital of Arabia Petræa , conquered by Trajan , and annexed to the province of Palestine . These consist of cham- bers , sepulchres , and colossal statues ; an excavated amphitheatre , and a ...
... once constituted the city of Petra , the capital of Arabia Petræa , conquered by Trajan , and annexed to the province of Palestine . These consist of cham- bers , sepulchres , and colossal statues ; an excavated amphitheatre , and a ...
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Página 97 - Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breathed around ; Every shade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound : Till the sad Nine, in Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains.
Página 194 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 166 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 33 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 138 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Página 99 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Página 164 - From the first Of days, on them his love divine he fix'd, His admiration : till in time complete, What he admired and loved, his vital smile Unfolded into being. Hence the breath Of life informing each organic frame, Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves; Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold ; And clear autumnal skies, and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Página 188 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 202 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 126 - Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill. But ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods...