On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... mornings he walked very often to the top of Arthur's Seat , and , lying prostrate on the turf , surveyed the rising of ... morning with so intense a longing to gaze upon the sea , that he mounted his horse , rode alone to the coast , 60 ...
... mornings he walked very often to the top of Arthur's Seat , and , lying prostrate on the turf , surveyed the rising of ... morning with so intense a longing to gaze upon the sea , that he mounted his horse , rode alone to the coast , 60 ...
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... morning of July 16 , 1820 , at half past four o'clock , the sun then shining in a cloudless sky , and the light vapours that arose from the River Ouse moving over a little field near St. Neots , suddenly the village of Great Paxton ...
... morning of July 16 , 1820 , at half past four o'clock , the sun then shining in a cloudless sky , and the light vapours that arose from the River Ouse moving over a little field near St. Neots , suddenly the village of Great Paxton ...
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... morning of the animal creation , she still pre- serves her secrets ; when we listen to the jug , the pause , and the warble of the nightingale ; when we behold the unrivalled splendour of the diamond bee- tle , the majestic coquetry of ...
... morning of the animal creation , she still pre- serves her secrets ; when we listen to the jug , the pause , and the warble of the nightingale ; when we behold the unrivalled splendour of the diamond bee- tle , the majestic coquetry of ...
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