American Quarterly Review, المجلد 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... coloured dress of the criminal . This , for a longer or shorter period , should be the desert of a man guilty of such enormities , and severe as this might seem , it would not meet the offence fully , for still it would fall short of ...
... coloured dress of the criminal . This , for a longer or shorter period , should be the desert of a man guilty of such enormities , and severe as this might seem , it would not meet the offence fully , for still it would fall short of ...
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... colour , it is immediately decom- posed or extinguished . When a white curtain is hung before a window , the bril- liancy of light is gone ; but still a great number of rays pass through the interstices of the fabric . If this same ...
... colour , it is immediately decom- posed or extinguished . When a white curtain is hung before a window , the bril- liancy of light is gone ; but still a great number of rays pass through the interstices of the fabric . If this same ...
الصفحة 155
... coloured material , this light , being opaque in consequence of its density , prevents our seeing the colours through ... colour will acquire a rusty tint . But although we do not see the colours on a part of a bright hearth rug when a ...
... coloured material , this light , being opaque in consequence of its density , prevents our seeing the colours through ... colour will acquire a rusty tint . But although we do not see the colours on a part of a bright hearth rug when a ...
الصفحة 156
... colour from mechanical or chemical action , nor do we consider the experiment with the revolving wheel at all ... coloured bodies cannot pass through them . It is only because we cannot see through them that the colours and outlines of ...
... colour from mechanical or chemical action , nor do we consider the experiment with the revolving wheel at all ... coloured bodies cannot pass through them . It is only because we cannot see through them that the colours and outlines of ...
الصفحة 157
... colour and luminousness , a painter could never represent external objects on canvass . Colour gives us the impression of form and outline , and of all the raised and depressed portions of a body . Does the mind , or seeing princi- ple ...
... colour and luminousness , a painter could never represent external objects on canvass . Colour gives us the impression of form and outline , and of all the raised and depressed portions of a body . Does the mind , or seeing princi- ple ...
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الصفحة 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
الصفحة 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
الصفحة 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
الصفحة 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
الصفحة 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
الصفحة 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
الصفحة 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
الصفحة 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
الصفحة 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
الصفحة 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...