On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... comet . The clouds among the Highlands of Scotland fre- quently display the finest outlines , and assume the loveliest shapes , especially when viewed from their wild and lofty summits . Beattie finely alludes to these appearances in ...
... comet . The clouds among the Highlands of Scotland fre- quently display the finest outlines , and assume the loveliest shapes , especially when viewed from their wild and lofty summits . Beattie finely alludes to these appearances in ...
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... comet ; the fury of Soly- man to a stormy ocean , seen at intervals through flashes of lightning ; and the virtues of Rinaldo to a tree bearing fruit and blossoms at the same time : Armida , recovering from a swoon , to a rose restored ...
... comet ; the fury of Soly- man to a stormy ocean , seen at intervals through flashes of lightning ; and the virtues of Rinaldo to a tree bearing fruit and blossoms at the same time : Armida , recovering from a swoon , to a rose restored ...
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... comet , the imagination wings into the infinite regions of space , or we dwell on the mortal combats with which the world has been desolated - on Cambyses in Ethiopia ; Alexan- der in India ; Brennus in Greece ; Attila in Italy ; Odin ...
... comet , the imagination wings into the infinite regions of space , or we dwell on the mortal combats with which the world has been desolated - on Cambyses in Ethiopia ; Alexan- der in India ; Brennus in Greece ; Attila in Italy ; Odin ...
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... comets , all floating in the boundless inane , were too overpowering , too mystic and magnificent for a mental ray so limited as mine . * Passing the bounds of place and time ( flammantia mania mundi ) , I could glance from earth to ...
... comets , all floating in the boundless inane , were too overpowering , too mystic and magnificent for a mental ray so limited as mine . * Passing the bounds of place and time ( flammantia mania mundi ) , I could glance from earth to ...
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... comet , and the star whisper to our imagination - There is room for myriads of myriads of myriads ! As the state of man , there can be no doubt , is progressive , that of planets and suns we may sup- pose progressive also . They may not ...
... comet , and the star whisper to our imagination - There is room for myriads of myriads of myriads ! As the state of man , there can be no doubt , is progressive , that of planets and suns we may sup- pose progressive also . They may not ...
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Page 104 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 279 - And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, And said unto them, Why sleep ye ? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Page 39 - 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.
Page 123 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 64 - 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 220 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Page 237 - Time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare ; And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Page 38 - 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.
Page 45 - Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here : and let us make three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
Page 300 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...