 | 1804 - 496 pàgines
...distinguished for cliastcness, character anil energy. REMARKS o:c DARWIN'S TEMPLE OF NATL'RE. This Poem does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of...and sublime images of the operations of nature, in order as the author believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them." It is di\ iiled... | |
 | David Peter Davies - 1811 - 758 pàgines
...the production of life; the re-production of life; the progress of the mind; arid of good and evil. Its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly to the imagination the beautiful and sublime operations of nature, in the order, in which the author believed, the progressive course of time presented... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 342 pàgines
...PUBLISHED BY JONES & COMPANY, 3, ACTON PLACE, KINGSLAND ROAD. 1825. PREFACE. THEPoem, which ¡shere offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct...believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them. The Deities of Egypt, and afterwards of Greece, and Rome, were derived from men famous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 pàgines
...being dated only three months before his death. The Temple of Nature aimed, like the Botanic Garden, to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination...beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature. It is more metaphysical than its predecessor, and more inverted in style and diction. The poetical... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 754 pàgines
...being dated only three months before his death. The Temple of Nature aimed, like the Botanic Garden, ves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that...here. Contrasted faults through all his manne™ re It is more metaphysical than its predecessor, and more inverted in style and diction. The poetical... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1870 - 424 pàgines
...prepared for the press a few months before his decease, was published in 1803. To copy from its preface, " Its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly...believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them." Here then, again, we have the theory of " progressive development," and it is certainly... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1873 - 478 pàgines
...prepared for the press a few months before his decease, was published in 1808. To copy from its preface, " Its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly...believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them." Here then, again, we have the theory of " progressive development," and it is certainly... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pàgines
...being dated only three months before his death. The Temple of Nature aimed, like the Botanic Garden, to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination...beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature. It is more metaphysical than its predecessor, and more inverted in style and diction. The poetical... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pàgines
...dated only three months before his death. The ' Temple of Nature' aimed, like the 'Botanic Garden,' to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination...beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature. It is more metaphysical than its predecessor, and more inverted in style and diction. The poetical... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pàgines
...dated only three mouths before his death. The ' Temple of Nature' aimed, like the 'Botanic Garden,' to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination...beautiful and sublime images of the operations of nature. It is more metaphysical than its predecessor, and more inverted in style and diction. The poetical... | |
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Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning ; its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly to the imagination, the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature, in the. order,... 
