On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations, Volumen31837 |
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... visiting the garden of a gentleman , near Win- chester , in which were assembled thirteen species of that plant ; he now loves to recal the memory of them all , whenever he has seen the purple species in the fields , or along the side ...
... visiting the garden of a gentleman , near Win- chester , in which were assembled thirteen species of that plant ; he now loves to recal the memory of them all , whenever he has seen the purple species in the fields , or along the side ...
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... visited , also , the site of Antony's camp ; and was , as Tacitus informs us , highly affected at the images , which there presented themselves , of the success of one ancestor , and of the misfortunes of another . It is so small , that ...
... visited , also , the site of Antony's camp ; and was , as Tacitus informs us , highly affected at the images , which there presented themselves , of the success of one ancestor , and of the misfortunes of another . It is so small , that ...
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... visited the mansions palaces , or castles of our nobility , seldom have we neglected to investigate the causes of their elevation , and recount the deeds of their ancestors . When we arrive at the miserable village of Cerig Druidian ...
... visited the mansions palaces , or castles of our nobility , seldom have we neglected to investigate the causes of their elevation , and recount the deeds of their ancestors . When we arrive at the miserable village of Cerig Druidian ...
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... visiting the ruins of a house , which tradition had assigned the birth - place of Homer . He wept with his companions . The Athenian dramatic writers were accustomed to recite their verses at the tomb of Eschylus : the Spartans held an ...
... visiting the ruins of a house , which tradition had assigned the birth - place of Homer . He wept with his companions . The Athenian dramatic writers were accustomed to recite their verses at the tomb of Eschylus : the Spartans held an ...
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... visited with nearly an equal delight . When Dupaty was at Frescati , the ancient Tusculum , his guide proposed to conduct him to the villas Pamphili , Ludo- visi , and Mondragone .- " No ! " said he , " show me the villa of Marcus ...
... visited with nearly an equal delight . When Dupaty was at Frescati , the ancient Tusculum , his guide proposed to conduct him to the villas Pamphili , Ludo- visi , and Mondragone .- " No ! " said he , " show me the villa of Marcus ...
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admiration Æschylus ancient animals appear associations awful beautiful become behold believe body called castle celebrated charm Cicero colours comet contemplation death Deity delight Dion Cassius discovered dream earth elegant eternity Euripides exhibited existence faculties feel flowers fortune fragments genius globe Greece happiness heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human hundred imagination immortality inhabitants insects island Italy Jupiter king Lelius live Lord Byron magnificent Majesty manner meditate melancholy mental mind misfortune monuments moon mountains Nature never night objects observed once pain passage passions Pausanias Persia Petrarch philosopher planets Plato pleasure Pliny poets Pompeii present Pythagoras quadrupeds repose rise rocks Roman Rome ruins Saturn says scene shells Sophocles soul species splendour spot stars Strabo sublime substances supposed Tacitus tears temple Thebes thing thousand tion tomb Totilas tree tumuli Uranus vast vegetables virtue visited whole
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Página 297 - Holland fleet, who, tir'd and done, Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.
Página 25 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 37 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 201 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Página 164 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 112 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Página 253 - 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...
Página 180 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Página 100 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...