On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and IllustrationsHarper and Brothers, 1841 - 329 էջ |
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... Italy if the Tiber and the Mincio possessed the same virtue . These fortunate people waft all their misfortunes on the bosom of their river to the English : we would willingly present ours in the same manner to the Moors of Africa , if ...
... Italy if the Tiber and the Mincio possessed the same virtue . These fortunate people waft all their misfortunes on the bosom of their river to the English : we would willingly present ours in the same manner to the Moors of Africa , if ...
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... Italian sky rendered those occasional retreats peculiarly agreeable to the Roman nobles : hence they were so ... Italy , containing mul- titudes of small paintings , representing vases , fes- toons , leaves , butterflies , shells ...
... Italian sky rendered those occasional retreats peculiarly agreeable to the Roman nobles : hence they were so ... Italy , containing mul- titudes of small paintings , representing vases , fes- toons , leaves , butterflies , shells ...
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... Italy with the pole . The sight of those enormous ramparts , whose heads , capped with eternal snow , seemed to touch the heavens , struck a sensible dejection into the hearts of the soldiers . Hannibal's force , at this time ...
... Italy with the pole . The sight of those enormous ramparts , whose heads , capped with eternal snow , seemed to touch the heavens , struck a sensible dejection into the hearts of the soldiers . Hannibal's force , at this time ...
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... Italian landscape , inspired the dejected soldiers with fresh vigour and alacrity ; and , setting forward , they soon ... Italy . On the thirteenth he arrived in the neighbourhood of Lausanne . Having reviewed his troops , he pur- sued ...
... Italian landscape , inspired the dejected soldiers with fresh vigour and alacrity ; and , setting forward , they soon ... Italy . On the thirteenth he arrived in the neighbourhood of Lausanne . Having reviewed his troops , he pur- sued ...
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... Italy , when Napoleon declared the Alps annihilated . VALLEYS . Ir abrupt and gigantic mountains , and , more than all , the ocean , elevate the mind , and exalt it above mortality , the woody dingle , the deep , romantic glen , the ...
... Italy , when Napoleon declared the Alps annihilated . VALLEYS . Ir abrupt and gigantic mountains , and , more than all , the ocean , elevate the mind , and exalt it above mortality , the woody dingle , the deep , romantic glen , the ...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes ... Charles Bucke Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
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admiration Africa alludes ancient animals appear atheist beautiful bees behold believe birds body Boötes called celebrated Celts Cicero clouds coast colour comet curious death Deity delight deserts discovered dream earth eggs esteemed eternal Euripides existence feel feet flowers frequently friends grave Greeks heard heart heaven honey honour human Iceland imagination immortality inhabitants insects islands Italy Jupiter Lake Lapland light live magnificent manner melancholy ment mind moon motion Mount mountains natives Nature never night observed ocean passage Persians Peru Petrarch plants Plato Pliny Plutarch poets present Pythagoras quadrupeds red snow regions remarkable resemble rising rivers rocks Romans Saturn says scene Scythians seen shells snow sometimes Sophocles soul species spot stars Statius sublime substances summit supposed Tasso temple thou thousand tion trees ture Uranus vale vast Vaucluse vegetable Virgil whole wonderful woods
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Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...