On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... heart is to the veins and arteries . The ancient writers peopled the sea with nymphs , whom they styled Nereids . Beautiful is the passage in Homer where he represents Thetis and the sea- green sisters sorrowing for the death of ...
... heart is to the veins and arteries . The ancient writers peopled the sea with nymphs , whom they styled Nereids . Beautiful is the passage in Homer where he represents Thetis and the sea- green sisters sorrowing for the death of ...
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... heart , and give thee a good and perfect life ! " In another part of the ceremony , she says , " May the invisible God descend upon this water , and cleanse thee of every sin and impurity , and free thee from evil fortune ! " Then ...
... heart , and give thee a good and perfect life ! " In another part of the ceremony , she says , " May the invisible God descend upon this water , and cleanse thee of every sin and impurity , and free thee from evil fortune ! " Then ...
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... heart , and he loses the empire of the world ! Does the classical stranger stand on the banks of the Issus ? He is reminded of that battle in which the Persians lost 10,000 horse , 100,000 foot , and 40,000 prisoners , while Alexander ...
... heart , and he loses the empire of the world ! Does the classical stranger stand on the banks of the Issus ? He is reminded of that battle in which the Persians lost 10,000 horse , 100,000 foot , and 40,000 prisoners , while Alexander ...
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... of art ; but the recollection of its having amused the declining years of the illustrious poet atones to the heart of the philanthropist for what is lost to the eye of taste . The inscription he 34 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
... of art ; but the recollection of its having amused the declining years of the illustrious poet atones to the heart of the philanthropist for what is lost to the eye of taste . The inscription he 34 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
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... pursuing the more quiet occupations of life , with what rapture do they inspire the hearts of men , long encompassed with danger , on beholding from their summits the goal to which their wishes and 48 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
... pursuing the more quiet occupations of life , with what rapture do they inspire the hearts of men , long encompassed with danger , on beholding from their summits the goal to which their wishes and 48 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
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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...