Three Popular Lectures: One on Natural History and Two on National MelodyJohn Davies, 1839 |
在该图书中搜索
共有 18 个结果,这是第 1-5 个
第5页
... present hour I have the happiness to stand before them . And I enter upon this task with the more confidence , gratefully recollecting with how much candour and courtesy I have always been heard by them , though differing in many ...
... present hour I have the happiness to stand before them . And I enter upon this task with the more confidence , gratefully recollecting with how much candour and courtesy I have always been heard by them , though differing in many ...
第7页
... present state of hardness , is extremely various ; some are supposed to require hundreds of centuries , while others indurate even in a few hours : of the latter sort is the calcareous tufa so common , that will encrust birds ' nests ...
... present state of hardness , is extremely various ; some are supposed to require hundreds of centuries , while others indurate even in a few hours : of the latter sort is the calcareous tufa so common , that will encrust birds ' nests ...
第12页
... presents abundance to the botanist . That loveliest of nymphs , the white water - lily , bathing amid her green drapery ; the violet - like Hottonia ; the curious frog - bit ; and that one of the most graceful of flowers , the wondrous ...
... presents abundance to the botanist . That loveliest of nymphs , the white water - lily , bathing amid her green drapery ; the violet - like Hottonia ; the curious frog - bit ; and that one of the most graceful of flowers , the wondrous ...
第19页
... present must reluctantly leave them , and hurry hurry on . Much , and mayhap too truly fearing that I weary you , my indulgent hearers , not by my matter , but my dull inability to handle it , I must omit the Reptiles , though replete ...
... present must reluctantly leave them , and hurry hurry on . Much , and mayhap too truly fearing that I weary you , my indulgent hearers , not by my matter , but my dull inability to handle it , I must omit the Reptiles , though replete ...
第26页
... present , what should we think of a man , going into Mr. Bigg's nursery - gardens , and with his stick wilfully and wantonly breaking any of that gentleman's collection of beautiful flowers , even though he paid their full value to the ...
... present , what should we think of a man , going into Mr. Bigg's nursery - gardens , and with his stick wilfully and wantonly breaking any of that gentleman's collection of beautiful flowers , even though he paid their full value to the ...
其他版本 - 查看全部
常见术语和短语
admiration affinity allude amid amusement ancient animals audience bagpipe beauty bewitching birds blossoms brilliant called Campbells are coming Chaunt Chromatic Scale colour common composed Condover copious cordial cotyledons counterpoint creatures delicious delight discourse display DOVASTON earth effect elegant elytra eminent encreased England English Enharmonic excellence exquisite fanciful favourite fear feel flowers gaze gentle graceful Greek Gwynedd Handel harmony harp heart Hebrides ingenious insects instantly instruments Irish learned Lecture lichens Linnæus mind musicians national melody national music native Natural History naturalist notes numberless numerous organ ornament Palestrina philosophers Placket plants play pleasure poet poetry profusion Purcell readily remarks resemble rich rocks Scotch music Scotland seeds seen shew Shrewsbury SHROPSHIRE song soul speak specimens Staffa stringed instruments strings style sublime sunbeams sung sweet taste Theseus told touch tribe truth tune unisons and octaves vegetable verses Welsh wild word
热门引用章节
第36页 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive: For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
第61页 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
第51页 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, . Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linke"d sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
第8页 - Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Form'd turret, dome, or battlement, Or seem'd fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck'd, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lack'd they many a banner fair; For, from their shiver'd brows display'd, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the...
第26页 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
第58页 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!
第36页 - By the sweet power of music : therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
第8页 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many an insulated mass, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain.
第37页 - Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy ; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow and the fascination of evil thoughts.
第37页 - ... the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned, either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners to smooth and...