On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... water no landscape can be perfect- ly beautiful . Few countries are more mountainous , or exhibit better materials for the landscape painter , than Persia ; yet it loses no inconsiderable portion of SUBLIMITIES OF NATURE . 19.
... water no landscape can be perfect- ly beautiful . Few countries are more mountainous , or exhibit better materials for the landscape painter , than Persia ; yet it loses no inconsiderable portion of SUBLIMITIES OF NATURE . 19.
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... perfect felicity , will recline upon the leaf of a pisang , rapt in ec- static meditation , with two betel plants floating on the bosom of its waters . Anciently it was the custom to raise funeral mon- uments on the banks of rivers ...
... perfect felicity , will recline upon the leaf of a pisang , rapt in ec- static meditation , with two betel plants floating on the bosom of its waters . Anciently it was the custom to raise funeral mon- uments on the banks of rivers ...
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... 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 , " Lovely child ! the gods have ...
... 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 , " Lovely child ! the gods have ...
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... perfect : the far - famed cata- ract in the Vale of Tempe has nothing to compare with it . In surveying this scene , our feelings are like those of Bruce on beholding the third cataract of the Nile : " a sight , " says he , so ...
... perfect : the far - famed cata- ract in the Vale of Tempe has nothing to compare with it . In surveying this scene , our feelings are like those of Bruce on beholding the third cataract of the Nile : " a sight , " says he , so ...
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... perfect a respect for its inhabitants , that they deem- ed it impious to disturb a people so exemplary in the practice of virtue and the worship of the gods . It was Numa who first erected a temple to Peace and Faith . The consecration ...
... perfect a respect for its inhabitants , that they deem- ed it impious to disturb a people so exemplary in the practice of virtue and the worship of the gods . It was Numa who first erected a temple to Peace and Faith . The consecration ...
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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...