An Essay on the Application of Natural History to PoetryW. Eyres, 1777 - 156 страници |
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... those highly celebrated zoologi- cal paintings in the book of Job in confirmation of this remark . In all of thefer it is found , that fome one pro- perty of the animal , which it indeed poffeffes in an eminent degree , but not ...
... those highly celebrated zoologi- cal paintings in the book of Job in confirmation of this remark . In all of thefer it is found , that fome one pro- perty of the animal , which it indeed poffeffes in an eminent degree , but not ...
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... those of other creatures , did not require , or even admit of minuteness in zoologi- cal description . Still , however , fuch want of precifion in the great outlines of his figures , must be imputed to the prevalence of a characteristic ...
... those of other creatures , did not require , or even admit of minuteness in zoologi- cal description . Still , however , fuch want of precifion in the great outlines of his figures , must be imputed to the prevalence of a characteristic ...
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... those antithetical points which on all occafions he fo much delights to intro- duce the images of flying and fwimming are therefore set in oppofition to each other ; and unless the latter be employ- ed in its fimple fignification , the ...
... those antithetical points which on all occafions he fo much delights to intro- duce the images of flying and fwimming are therefore set in oppofition to each other ; and unless the latter be employ- ed in its fimple fignification , the ...
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... those of dying fwans , whose latest breath In mournful ftrains laments approaching death . CREECH . AND in another paffage he blends this fiction with reality in a manner equally injudicious . Parvus ut eft cycni melior canor , ille ...
... those of dying fwans , whose latest breath In mournful ftrains laments approaching death . CREECH . AND in another paffage he blends this fiction with reality in a manner equally injudicious . Parvus ut eft cycni melior canor , ille ...
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... those high- er and lefs obvious parts of the œcono- my of nature which come under the furvey of philofophy . The Copernican theory of the folar fyftem has been now long enough establifhed to take place of of the Ptolemaic even in ...
... those high- er and lefs obvious parts of the œcono- my of nature which come under the furvey of philofophy . The Copernican theory of the folar fyftem has been now long enough establifhed to take place of of the Ptolemaic even in ...
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