Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In which the Geography, Character, Customs, and Manners of Nations are Described, and the Phenomena of Nature, Most Worthy of Observation, are Illustrated on Scientific PrinciplesG. & W.B. Whittaker, 1820 - 506 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... covered with a sort of chaotic compost , holding , either in solution or suspension , the various rocks and strata which now present themselves to us as its exterior crust . From some unexplained cause , this fluid began first to ...
... covered with a sort of chaotic compost , holding , either in solution or suspension , the various rocks and strata which now present themselves to us as its exterior crust . From some unexplained cause , this fluid began first to ...
Pagina 10
... covered . with water , as may be proved by taking a map of the world , and cutting out all that part of it , which is assigned to the continents and islands , from what is allotted to the oceans , seas , gulfs , bays , and lakes . Then ...
... covered . with water , as may be proved by taking a map of the world , and cutting out all that part of it , which is assigned to the continents and islands , from what is allotted to the oceans , seas , gulfs , bays , and lakes . Then ...
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... covered with water ten or twelve feet deep . History confirms their former union . The isles Cassiterides , ' says Strabo , are ten in number , close to one another ; one of them is desert and unpeopled , the rest are inhabited . ' But ...
... covered with water ten or twelve feet deep . History confirms their former union . The isles Cassiterides , ' says Strabo , are ten in number , close to one another ; one of them is desert and unpeopled , the rest are inhabited . ' But ...
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... covered with dwellings , are now in many parts sunk sixteen feet below water ; for we cannot suppose the ocean to have risen to that extraordinary height . This subsidence of the land must have been followed by an immense inundation ...
... covered with dwellings , are now in many parts sunk sixteen feet below water ; for we cannot suppose the ocean to have risen to that extraordinary height . This subsidence of the land must have been followed by an immense inundation ...
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... covered this sculpture with lime , upon which he traced the name of Ptolemy . In the course of a few years the lime wore away , and beneath it appeared the artist's own inscription . Amongst the modern light - houses Eddy- stone stands ...
... covered this sculpture with lime , upon which he traced the name of Ptolemy . In the course of a few years the lime wore away , and beneath it appeared the artist's own inscription . Amongst the modern light - houses Eddy- stone stands ...
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Pagina 225 - Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 148 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Pagina 378 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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 pleased : now...
Pagina 210 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 225 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 29 - ... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles, well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains, with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot...
Pagina 95 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Pagina 225 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Pagina 471 - Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of Nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely bless'd, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Pagina 494 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.