On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and IllustrationsHarper and Brothers, 1841 - 329 էջ |
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... seen afford presumptive evidence in regard to things unseen , what more noble employment than to trace in the beauties , harmonies , and sublimities of the material universe those proofs of power , wisdom , and goodness which lead to ...
... seen afford presumptive evidence in regard to things unseen , what more noble employment than to trace in the beauties , harmonies , and sublimities of the material universe those proofs of power , wisdom , and goodness which lead to ...
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... seen him strolling by moonlight along the green shores of the Tagus ; and beautifully pa- thetic is the passage in a small ballad of Logan , where , describing the wanderings of a mother and sister , the poet heightens the solemn ...
... seen him strolling by moonlight along the green shores of the Tagus ; and beautifully pa- thetic is the passage in a small ballad of Logan , where , describing the wanderings of a mother and sister , the poet heightens the solemn ...
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... seen , and heard , and contempla- ted . " I have no words , " he continues , " by which to paint my feelings ; I can only think of the friends who are absent ; I can form but the wish to draw them all into one circle , and to dwell with ...
... seen , and heard , and contempla- ted . " I have no words , " he continues , " by which to paint my feelings ; I can only think of the friends who are absent ; I can form but the wish to draw them all into one circle , and to dwell with ...
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... seen or imagined could compare in gran- deur with the Falls of Niagara . " MOUNTAINS . A COUNTRY destitute of mountains may be rich , well cultivated , and even beautiful , but it can in no instance be sublime or transporting ; and to ...
... seen or imagined could compare in gran- deur with the Falls of Niagara . " MOUNTAINS . A COUNTRY destitute of mountains may be rich , well cultivated , and even beautiful , but it can in no instance be sublime or transporting ; and to ...
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... perpetual snows . Separating the southern from the northern nations of Asia , they are seen at the vast distance of 244 miles . The first European who ever ascended them was Cap- tain Webb 46 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
... perpetual snows . Separating the southern from the northern nations of Asia , they are seen at the vast distance of 244 miles . The first European who ever ascended them was Cap- tain Webb 46 BEAUTIES , HARMONIES , AND.
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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...