On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 51
... imagination than Greece . Her mountains were not more the theme of her poets than her vales , and no one of these was so celebrated as that of Tempe . A Greek writer calls it " a festival for the eyes " and the gods were believed at ...
... imagination than Greece . Her mountains were not more the theme of her poets than her vales , and no one of these was so celebrated as that of Tempe . A Greek writer calls it " a festival for the eyes " and the gods were believed at ...
Page 88
... imagination con- jures up in reading the descriptions of the Arabian poets . The Sicilians therefore consider it to be the most beautiful sight in nature . Minasi has written a dissertation on this phenom- enon , which is thus described ...
... imagination con- jures up in reading the descriptions of the Arabian poets . The Sicilians therefore consider it to be the most beautiful sight in nature . Minasi has written a dissertation on this phenom- enon , which is thus described ...
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... imagination can supply what is wanting to perfection in astronomy , imagination is in itself nothing : it is , as it were , less than nothing . Those stars which are observed to roll round other stars , must be suns rolling round suns ...
... imagination can supply what is wanting to perfection in astronomy , imagination is in itself nothing : it is , as it were , less than nothing . Those stars which are observed to roll round other stars , must be suns rolling round suns ...
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