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... readers to choose amongst the various characters . I have hastily sketched those whom they will resemble in their travels . The advantages which are to be derived from travelling in our days are of a superior nature . Men of distant ...
... readers to choose amongst the various characters . I have hastily sketched those whom they will resemble in their travels . The advantages which are to be derived from travelling in our days are of a superior nature . Men of distant ...
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... readers who are still conscien- tiously attached to their respective creeds . Her ladyship seems to make little distinction between Catholic and Protestant : she even indulges in what she thinks comparisons between Catholic and ...
... readers who are still conscien- tiously attached to their respective creeds . Her ladyship seems to make little distinction between Catholic and Protestant : she even indulges in what she thinks comparisons between Catholic and ...
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... readers some notion of the character of this work , by a few extracts . We perhaps cannot easily find a more favourable opinion of our author's sustained style , than the following passage distinguish- . ing between Northern and ...
... readers some notion of the character of this work , by a few extracts . We perhaps cannot easily find a more favourable opinion of our author's sustained style , than the following passage distinguish- . ing between Northern and ...
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... readers the views of scenery may be considered too abounding ; but in truth these constitute the greatest and the lasting charm of Italy . It is a poetical country , and it is impossible to speak feelingly of Italy without imbibing some ...
... readers the views of scenery may be considered too abounding ; but in truth these constitute the greatest and the lasting charm of Italy . It is a poetical country , and it is impossible to speak feelingly of Italy without imbibing some ...
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... readers are acquainted with the travels of Baron Munchausen ; and if they derived any amuse- ment from his marvellous adventures , they probably will not be displeased with us for introducing them to his classical prototype . Amongst ...
... readers are acquainted with the travels of Baron Munchausen ; and if they derived any amuse- ment from his marvellous adventures , they probably will not be displeased with us for introducing them to his classical prototype . Amongst ...
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Página 38 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 191 - Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Página 83 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Página 189 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay.
Página 86 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Página 190 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Página 190 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight...
Página 191 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Página 39 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 304 - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...