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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... give equal brilliancy to many parts of China and India . In the Torrid Zone , also , countless multi- tudes of phosphorescent insects fly in all directions , and give light to groves of palms and mimosas . The elata noctilucus of South ...
... give equal brilliancy to many parts of China and India . In the Torrid Zone , also , countless multi- tudes of phosphorescent insects fly in all directions , and give light to groves of palms and mimosas . The elata noctilucus of South ...
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... gives signals by neighing ; on hearing which the whole party set off with a speed equal to that of the wind . Wild asses congregate in the same manner . Antelopes associate in bodies , fre- quently to the number of three thousand . The ...
... gives signals by neighing ; on hearing which the whole party set off with a speed equal to that of the wind . Wild asses congregate in the same manner . Antelopes associate in bodies , fre- quently to the number of three thousand . The ...
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... give them poisonous food , in order to relieve them from cap- tivity . I will not vouch for the truth of this ; but the Delawarians believe , and Captain Aubury ' has recorded it . Democritus contended , that men learnt music and ...
... give them poisonous food , in order to relieve them from cap- tivity . I will not vouch for the truth of this ; but the Delawarians believe , and Captain Aubury ' has recorded it . Democritus contended , that men learnt music and ...
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... give to gold its almost miraculous ductility ; to metals in general their peculiar affinities ; and to pyrites the heat , which it communicates to mineral waters . Then , also , will be explained the reason why , in one parti- cular ...
... give to gold its almost miraculous ductility ; to metals in general their peculiar affinities ; and to pyrites the heat , which it communicates to mineral waters . Then , also , will be explained the reason why , in one parti- cular ...
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... give them hardness : and though pla tina is remarkably ductile , yet it cannot be heated in a forge . The diamond , the hardest of bodies , is yet susceptible of the most brilliant polish ; and the oxyde of arsenic , which is a deadly ...
... give them hardness : and though pla tina is remarkably ductile , yet it cannot be heated in a forge . The diamond , the hardest of bodies , is yet susceptible of the most brilliant polish ; and the oxyde of arsenic , which is a deadly ...
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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, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
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 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 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 259 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 232 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
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 321 - O 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, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven...
Page 376 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 254 - 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 ; You, recluse, again I woo, And again your steps pursue.