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 страници |
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... Matlock sits , and shakes his crest of woods . But when fair Derby's stately towers you view , Where his bright meads your sparkling currents drink , O ! should Eliza press the morning dew , And bend her graceful footsteps to your brink ...
... Matlock sits , and shakes his crest of woods . But when fair Derby's stately towers you view , Where his bright meads your sparkling currents drink , O ! should Eliza press the morning dew , And bend her graceful footsteps to your brink ...
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... Matlock is not justly called Nature's rudest child . If his rocks were without clothing , he might properly be so called . Rude gives an idea of bar . renness , and Matlock is luxuriantly umbraged ; much more luxuriantly than Dove Dale ...
... Matlock is not justly called Nature's rudest child . If his rocks were without clothing , he might properly be so called . Rude gives an idea of bar . renness , and Matlock is luxuriantly umbraged ; much more luxuriantly than Dove Dale ...
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... Matlock , with the whole pro- gress of its operations , is brought distinctly before the eye , recalling them to those by whom they have have been examined , and instructing in their pro- gress those who never beheld them . So , in the ...
... Matlock , with the whole pro- gress of its operations , is brought distinctly before the eye , recalling them to those by whom they have have been examined , and instructing in their pro- gress those who never beheld them . So , in the ...
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... simile it may be called which similitude has none . However , the mechan- ism of bow and arrow - making is presented with very amusing precision . Evidently to support a splendid prelusive des- cription of Matlock DR . DARWIN . 265.
... simile it may be called which similitude has none . However , the mechan- ism of bow and arrow - making is presented with very amusing precision . Evidently to support a splendid prelusive des- cription of Matlock DR . DARWIN . 265.
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... Matlock , and the theory of the warmth of its fountain proceeding from internal volcano , is the aquatic plant , the Fucus , introduced , which , we are told , soon appears in all basins that contain water . The Fucus is represented as ...
... Matlock , and the theory of the warmth of its fountain proceeding from internal volcano , is the aquatic plant , the Fucus , introduced , which , we are told , soon appears in all basins that contain water . The Fucus is represented as ...
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Страница 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Страница 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...
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
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