On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 3G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... instances are exceptions to the general rule , and form links serving to connect the sensation of vegetables with those of animals ; for it is not unreasonable to suppose , that plants may differ in feelings as well as in appearance ...
... instances are exceptions to the general rule , and form links serving to connect the sensation of vegetables with those of animals ; for it is not unreasonable to suppose , that plants may differ in feelings as well as in appearance ...
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... instances , would seem at first view to confirm an opinion , generated by Lin- næus , viz . : —that plants were originally created with a power of producing their own species only , without any admixture of kinds ; and that they will ...
... instances , would seem at first view to confirm an opinion , generated by Lin- næus , viz . : —that plants were originally created with a power of producing their own species only , without any admixture of kinds ; and that they will ...
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... instances more de- tached . When Misson2 was in Italy , he observed the hedges , bushes , fields , and trees , covered with innumerable flies ( lucicole ) , which gave great splendour to the evening air . The fulgoria candelaria , and ...
... instances more de- tached . When Misson2 was in Italy , he observed the hedges , bushes , fields , and trees , covered with innumerable flies ( lucicole ) , which gave great splendour to the evening air . The fulgoria candelaria , and ...
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... instances are very remarkable ; but in the olive and potatoe are peculiarities still more curious . The olive is propa- gated by cuttings , and by procuring wild plants from the woods . It will not grow from the seed , unless it first ...
... instances are very remarkable ; but in the olive and potatoe are peculiarities still more curious . The olive is propa- gated by cuttings , and by procuring wild plants from the woods . It will not grow from the seed , unless it first ...
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... instance of the kind , that has yet been ob- seryed in natural economy . In minerals many ano- malies and resemblances have , also , been observed . The vinegar - stone attracts vinegar , yet cannot remain in it and there is a stone ...
... instance of the kind , that has yet been ob- seryed in natural economy . In minerals many ano- malies and resemblances have , also , been observed . The vinegar - stone attracts vinegar , yet cannot remain in it and there is a stone ...
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Page 259 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 260 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 208 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 261 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of...
Page 314 - 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...
Page 215 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...
Page 254 - O Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey." observing,
Page 252 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Page 76 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.
Page 321 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...