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 pagina's |
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Pagina 147
... Canto , he had described the spring in all her glory , when the Botanic Queen descended , and the impersonized elements received her . The nymphs are also commanded to assail the fiend of frost ; to break his white towers and crystal ...
... Canto , he had described the spring in all her glory , when the Botanic Queen descended , and the impersonized elements received her . The nymphs are also commanded to assail the fiend of frost ; to break his white towers and crystal ...
Pagina 148
... . This Canto terminates with the obedience of the nymphs , and a simile for their departure . They start from the soil , and wing their duteous flight . While vaulted skies , with streams of transient rays , 148 MEMOIRS OF.
... . This Canto terminates with the obedience of the nymphs , and a simile for their departure . They start from the soil , and wing their duteous flight . While vaulted skies , with streams of transient rays , 148 MEMOIRS OF.
Pagina 151
... , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name , THE SECOND CANTO Opens with the charge of the Botanic DR . DARWIN . 151.
... , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name , THE SECOND CANTO Opens with the charge of the Botanic DR . DARWIN . 151.
Pagina 152
... CANTO Opens with the charge of the Botanic Queen to her Gnomes , who are here restored to that bene- volent character allotted to them by Rosicrusius , and which , to suit his purpose , Pope rendered ma- lignant , in the Rape of the ...
... CANTO Opens with the charge of the Botanic Queen to her Gnomes , who are here restored to that bene- volent character allotted to them by Rosicrusius , and which , to suit his purpose , Pope rendered ma- lignant , in the Rape of the ...
Pagina 164
... Canto terminates . If the Gnomes make their exit with less poetic splendor than their predecessors , it must be considered that the Nymphs of Fire are personages of more intrin- sic dignity . THE THIRD CANTO Opens with a charge to the ...
... Canto terminates . If the Gnomes make their exit with less poetic splendor than their predecessors , it must be considered that the Nymphs of Fire are personages of more intrin- sic dignity . THE THIRD CANTO Opens with a charge to the ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1804 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...