On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations, 第 3 卷1837 |
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... Meditating on the rise of republics , and the revolutions of empires ; the changes of manners , customs , laws , and opi- nions ; a progression of ages is exhibited to the mind , in characters and pictures , which gives an enlarged view ...
... Meditating on the rise of republics , and the revolutions of empires ; the changes of manners , customs , laws , and opi- nions ; a progression of ages is exhibited to the mind , in characters and pictures , which gives an enlarged view ...
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... meditating on the Cross . When , therefore , his favourite wish was real- ised , impossible is it to describe the solemn interest with which he beheld the two magnificent stars , that mark the foot and summit of the southern Cross ...
... meditating on the Cross . When , therefore , his favourite wish was real- ised , impossible is it to describe the solemn interest with which he beheld the two magnificent stars , that mark the foot and summit of the southern Cross ...
第 28 頁
... for the profound- est melancholy.When we pause upon the ruins of a counte nance , melancholy and meditative , whose only dower of ins 爱 heritance was independence of mind when the captivating bloom 28 ON THE BEAUTIES , HARMONIES ,
... for the profound- est melancholy.When we pause upon the ruins of a counte nance , melancholy and meditative , whose only dower of ins 爱 heritance was independence of mind when the captivating bloom 28 ON THE BEAUTIES , HARMONIES ,
第 41 頁
... " key of Europe : " but the Turks had neither pilots , ships , nor boats . Solyman stood meditating on the beach , one fine moonlight night , for some time . He had come thither with about eighty followers AND SUBLIMITIES OF NATURE . 41.
... " key of Europe : " but the Turks had neither pilots , ships , nor boats . Solyman stood meditating on the beach , one fine moonlight night , for some time . He had come thither with about eighty followers AND SUBLIMITIES OF NATURE . 41.
第 63 頁
... meditate without fathoming wherefore , in every age but that which gave birth to him , dramatic genius should have been denied to a country , so eminently productive in every other species of genius " . Few natives of Sienna visit the ...
... meditate without fathoming wherefore , in every age but that which gave birth to him , dramatic genius should have been denied to a country , so eminently productive in every other species of genius " . Few natives of Sienna visit the ...
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第 297 頁 - 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.
第 25 頁 - 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.
第 37 頁 - 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.
第 201 頁 - 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...
第 164 頁 - 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.
第 112 頁 - 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.
第 253 頁 - 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...
第 180 頁 - 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.
第 100 頁 - 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...