 In this, its state of infancy and youth, it may be compared to the human mind in which fancy and strength of imagination are predominant — it is more beautiful than useful. When the different rills or torrents join, and descend into the plain, it becomes...  The New sporting magazine - Página 2121836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 300 páginas
...in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. I will not fail to obey your summons. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human...lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters. HAL. — One might pursue the metaphor still further, and say, that in its origin — its thundering... | |
 | 1829 - 512 páginas
...author : — " A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human...lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." It is cheering, though not surprising, to find a man of Sir Humphry Davy's high intellectual endowments... | |
 | 1830 - 494 páginas
...instance : — " A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human...lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy;... | |
 | 1830 - 504 páginas
...instance : — " A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human...lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy;... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 páginas
...river as the most poetical object in Nature. — " I will not fail to obey your summons. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human...lost, and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Halieus adds — " One might pursue the metaphor still farther, and say, that in its origin — its... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 páginas
...not fail to obey your summons. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human life. T have never read the passage in his works ; but I have...lost, and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Halieus adds — " One might pursue the metaphor still farther, and say, that in its origin — its... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 338 páginas
...applied to move machinery, to irrigate meadows, and to bear upon its bosom the stately barge;—in this mature state, it is deep, strong, and useful....lost, and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters. HAL.—One might pursue the metaphor still further, and say, that in its origin—its thundering and... | |
 | 1833 - 310 páginas
...into the plain, it becomes slow and stately in its motions ; it is applied to move machinery, to water meadows, and to bear upon its bosom the stately barge...lost, and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters. Sm H. DAVY. 1832.1 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. WILLIAM COLLINS, THE POET. WILLIAM COLLINS. A MONUMENT of... | |
 | 1833 - 814 páginas
...its bosom the stately barge ; — in this mature state, it is deep, strong, and useful. As it Hows on towards the sea, it loses its force and its motion,...at last, as it were, becomes lost, and mingled with tho mighty abyss of waters. SIR U, DAVY. 1832.J THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. [NOVEMBER 24, WILLIAM COLLINS,... | |
 | 1834 - 434 páginas
...; in this mature state it is deep, strong, and useful. As it flows on towards the sea, it loses ils force and its motion, and at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the inightv abyss of waters. One might pursue the metaphor still fur(her, and say, that in its origin,... | |
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