On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and IllustrationsHarper and Brothers, 1841 - 329 էջ |
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... colours and their forins , have been to me An appetite . - WORDSWORTH . BY CHARLES BUCKE , AUTHOR OF " RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES , " & c . , & c . SELECTED AND REVISED BY THE REV . WILLIAM P. PAGE . NEW - YORK : HARPER AND BROTHERS ...
... colours and their forins , have been to me An appetite . - WORDSWORTH . BY CHARLES BUCKE , AUTHOR OF " RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES , " & c . , & c . SELECTED AND REVISED BY THE REV . WILLIAM P. PAGE . NEW - YORK : HARPER AND BROTHERS ...
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... Colours 96 The Seasons • Beautiful Sounds - Sublime Sounds · 101 . 108 Echoes • Music of the Spheres . 112 Language of Birds . 116 Flowers . 117 • Vegetable Migration Corallina Bees Ants · Influence of Climate . 143 . 153 156 . 121 ...
... Colours 96 The Seasons • Beautiful Sounds - Sublime Sounds · 101 . 108 Echoes • Music of the Spheres . 112 Language of Birds . 116 Flowers . 117 • Vegetable Migration Corallina Bees Ants · Influence of Climate . 143 . 153 156 . 121 ...
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... coloured hair ; all beating their breasts , and weeping in the silence of their grottoes . Many are the paragraphs in the sacred writings descriptive of the ocean . In the Apocalypse , how sublime the passage where a mighty angel is ...
... coloured hair ; all beating their breasts , and weeping in the silence of their grottoes . Many are the paragraphs in the sacred writings descriptive of the ocean . In the Apocalypse , how sublime the passage where a mighty angel is ...
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... coloured fans , while delicious per- fumes pervade the vessel . Antony sups with the queen ; she wins his heart , and he loses the empire of the world ! Does the classical stranger stand on the banks of the Issus ? He is reminded of ...
... coloured fans , while delicious per- fumes pervade the vessel . Antony sups with the queen ; she wins his heart , and he loses the empire of the world ! Does the classical stranger stand on the banks of the Issus ? He is reminded of ...
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... colour and of an exceedingly pleasant taste , the inhabitants of the neighbourhood believed that Bacchus had been wash- ed in it immediately after his birth . It had some- thing of the flavour of wine . Many of these have doubtless a ...
... colour and of an exceedingly pleasant taste , the inhabitants of the neighbourhood believed that Bacchus had been wash- ed in it immediately after his birth . It had some- thing of the flavour of wine . Many of these have doubtless a ...
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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...