Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His WritingsAt the Classic Press, for W. Poyntell & Company, 1804 - 313 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17
... lover , weeping over beauty's bier , No warrior , frowning in historic stone , Extorts your praises , or requests your tear . Cold Contemplation leans her aching head , And as on human woe her broad eye turns , Waves her meek hand , and ...
... lover , weeping over beauty's bier , No warrior , frowning in historic stone , Extorts your praises , or requests your tear . Cold Contemplation leans her aching head , And as on human woe her broad eye turns , Waves her meek hand , and ...
Pàgina 101
... perspective through the graceful arches , formed by their meeting branches . Suddenly my ear was startled , not by the voice of my lover , but by the loud 15 DR . DARWIN . 101 But let me hasten to tell thee how my sensibi- ...
... perspective through the graceful arches , formed by their meeting branches . Suddenly my ear was startled , not by the voice of my lover , but by the loud 15 DR . DARWIN . 101 But let me hasten to tell thee how my sensibi- ...
Pàgina 102
... lover , but by the loud and disson- ant noise of the war - song , which six black grimal- kins were raising in honor of the numerous vic- tories obtained by the Persian , Snow ; compared with which , they acknowledged those of English ...
... lover , but by the loud and disson- ant noise of the war - song , which six black grimal- kins were raising in honor of the numerous vic- tories obtained by the Persian , Snow ; compared with which , they acknowledged those of English ...
Pàgina 156
... lover of the virgin air , and fire transformed into a jea- lous rival , indignant of the treacherous courtship . The trio are compared to Mars , Venus , and Vul- can , and the Homeric tale , of the enmeshed pair , is told again . The ...
... lover of the virgin air , and fire transformed into a jea- lous rival , indignant of the treacherous courtship . The trio are compared to Mars , Venus , and Vul- can , and the Homeric tale , of the enmeshed pair , is told again . The ...
Pàgina 157
... lovers it en- tangles , the poet leads us to his forge , after the mention of iron , as produced by the decomposition of vegetable bodies . To perceive the strength and truth of the Forge - picture , no power of imagina- tion , on the ...
... lovers it en- tangles , the poet leads us to his forge , after the mention of iron , as produced by the decomposition of vegetable bodies . To perceive the strength and truth of the Forge - picture , no power of imagina- tion , on the ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualització completa - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualització completa - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualització completa - 1804 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pàgina 310 - There's no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? Where is to-morrow? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none...
Pàgina 220 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Pàgina 177 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pàgina 34 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Pàgina 113 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Pàgina 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Pàgina 252 - E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Western shores Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars : E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound, And sable nations tremble at the sound ! — . YE BANDS OF SENATORS!
Pàgina 198 - ... orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
Pàgina 43 - It was a platform, with a seat fixed upon a very high pair of wheefs, and supported in the front, upon the back of the horse, by means of a kind of proboscis, which, forming an arch, reached over the hind quarters of the horse, and passed through a ring, placed on an upright piece of iron, which worked in a socket, fixed in the saddle. The...