Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Том 1G. Davidson, 1816 - 617 страници |
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... Valetta on a rock or eminence is on the right , the forts of St. Elmo and Ricasoli on the left . The fortifications of these appear very strong . Many of the buildings of La Valetta seem to be lofty and magni- ficent . The houses are ...
... Valetta on a rock or eminence is on the right , the forts of St. Elmo and Ricasoli on the left . The fortifications of these appear very strong . Many of the buildings of La Valetta seem to be lofty and magni- ficent . The houses are ...
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... Valetta stands on a promontory washed by two inlets of the ocean , which divide it from two other promontories . I do not yet accurately know the bearings of the place , but as you sail up to it , the principal harbour is on the left of ...
... Valetta stands on a promontory washed by two inlets of the ocean , which divide it from two other promontories . I do not yet accurately know the bearings of the place , but as you sail up to it , the principal harbour is on the left of ...
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... Valetta . In our voyage thither , which was made in the boats of the Apollo , we of course passed down the whole length of the great harbour , round the point which is a saliant angle of one of the bastions of Fort St. Elmo , and up ...
... Valetta . In our voyage thither , which was made in the boats of the Apollo , we of course passed down the whole length of the great harbour , round the point which is a saliant angle of one of the bastions of Fort St. Elmo , and up ...
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... Valetta , with a parade be- fore it , and a considerable opening on one side , in which a handsome library has lately been erected . The lower parts of the building are , I believe , appropriated to the servants , or rooms of business ...
... Valetta , with a parade be- fore it , and a considerable opening on one side , in which a handsome library has lately been erected . The lower parts of the building are , I believe , appropriated to the servants , or rooms of business ...
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... Valetta , the Island of Malta , a fête to which the General carried me to - day at Bermula , in honour of one of the Saints who are believed to patronize the different villages , or casals as they are here called , and any thing new ...
... Valetta , the Island of Malta , a fête to which the General carried me to - day at Bermula , in honour of one of the Saints who are believed to patronize the different villages , or casals as they are here called , and any thing new ...
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Страница 189 - Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd." and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Страница 188 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Страница 207 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Страница 189 - Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Страница 190 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Страница 188 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Страница 145 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without: and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Страница 176 - ... transference of the name of the first to the second ; and that, in consequence of the other affinities which connect the remaining objects together, the same name may pass in succession from B to C ; from C to D ; and from D to E ? In this manner a common appellation will arise between A and E, although the two objects may, in their nature and properties, be so widely distant from each other, that no stretch of imagination can conceive how the thoughts were led from the former to the latter.
Страница 185 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Страница 147 - As for our senses, by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations, ideas, or those things that are immediately perceived by sense, call them what you will; but they do not inform us that things exist without the mind, or unperceived, like to those which are perceived.