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 من الصفحات |
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... heartily glad to separate the little squabblers . Sabrina was become the favourite . He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber milliner . She behaved well , and became the wife of a respectable linen- DR . DARWIN . 27.
... heartily glad to separate the little squabblers . Sabrina was become the favourite . He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber milliner . She behaved well , and became the wife of a respectable linen- DR . DARWIN . 27.
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... become a widower ; and , in the year 1780 , he learned that his second love of that name , Miss Elizabeth Sneyd was also , after the death of Honora married to Mr. Edge- worth . It was singular that Mr. Day should thus , in the course ...
... become a widower ; and , in the year 1780 , he learned that his second love of that name , Miss Elizabeth Sneyd was also , after the death of Honora married to Mr. Edge- worth . It was singular that Mr. Day should thus , in the course ...
الصفحة 35
... become serviceable , disdaining to employ a horse breaker , he would use it to the bit and the burden himself . He was not a good horseman . The animal disliking his new situation , heeded not the soothing voice to which he had been ...
... become serviceable , disdaining to employ a horse breaker , he would use it to the bit and the burden himself . He was not a good horseman . The animal disliking his new situation , heeded not the soothing voice to which he had been ...
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... becomes unwholesome in a few hours " if the windows are shut . Open those of your sleeping - rooms whenever you quit them to go to your workshops . Keep the windows of your workshops open whenever the weather is not in- " supportably ...
... becomes unwholesome in a few hours " if the windows are shut . Open those of your sleeping - rooms whenever you quit them to go to your workshops . Keep the windows of your workshops open whenever the weather is not in- " supportably ...
الصفحة 149
... become ludicrous , as succeeding to a picture of such gay sublimity ; for sublimity is not always confined to sombre objects . Proofs that it is not , are found in the Paradise Lost . When Adam observes to Eve , on the approach of the ...
... become ludicrous , as succeeding to a picture of such gay sublimity ; for sublimity is not always confined to sombre objects . Proofs that it is not , are found in the Paradise Lost . When Adam observes to Eve , on the approach of the ...
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الصفحة 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 43 - It was a platform, with a seat fixed upon a very high pair of wheefs, and supported in the front, upon the back of the horse, by means of a kind of proboscis, which, forming an arch, reached over the hind quarters of the horse, and passed through a ring, placed on an upright piece of iron, which worked in a socket, fixed in the saddle. The...