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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الصفحة 144
... - ject of this little fable to be engraven , or painted with the utmost excellence , yet the exquisitely natural action of the infant god shaking his fingers , and laughing and stamping , from that degree 144 MEMOIRS OF.
... - ject of this little fable to be engraven , or painted with the utmost excellence , yet the exquisitely natural action of the infant god shaking his fingers , and laughing and stamping , from that degree 144 MEMOIRS OF.
الصفحة 145
... fable of Eros , or Divine Love , issuing from the great egg of night , floating in chaos ; but surely the image of this celestial love is too gay for the sub- limity of its birth ; " gaudy wings , soft smiles , golden curls , and silver ...
... fable of Eros , or Divine Love , issuing from the great egg of night , floating in chaos ; but surely the image of this celestial love is too gay for the sub- limity of its birth ; " gaudy wings , soft smiles , golden curls , and silver ...
الصفحة 157
... fable of Mars and Venus , in Vulcan's net , repeated by Darwin with new cir- cumstances , more picturesque , not more indelicate , forms one somewhat licentious passage in the Bo- tanic Garden , the Iliad contains several which are ...
... fable of Mars and Venus , in Vulcan's net , repeated by Darwin with new cir- cumstances , more picturesque , not more indelicate , forms one somewhat licentious passage in the Bo- tanic Garden , the Iliad contains several which are ...
الصفحة 159
... fable ; and Proteus - gallantries are retold even more beau- tifully than Ovid has told them , particularly the story of Europa . It is here beyond all possible transcendence , exquisite , and it closes with a spi- rited compliment to ...
... fable ; and Proteus - gallantries are retold even more beau- tifully than Ovid has told them , particularly the story of Europa . It is here beyond all possible transcendence , exquisite , and it closes with a spi- rited compliment to ...
الصفحة 164
... fable of the slaughtered , buried , and as- surgent Adonis . His story is told with not less added poetic excellence than , with accession of personal beauty , he is said to have arisen from the dark mansions of Proserpine , and to have ...
... fable of the slaughtered , buried , and as- surgent Adonis . His story is told with not less added poetic excellence than , with accession of personal beauty , he is said to have arisen from the dark mansions of Proserpine , and to have ...
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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...