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Owing to the spherical form of the earth , and the obliquity of its axis , very
different quantities of light or heat are received fissures of an extensive limestone
rock , and seem to receive the su . perficial impressions in the space of three
months .
Owing to the spherical form of the earth , and the obliquity of its axis , very
different quantities of light or heat are received fissures of an extensive limestone
rock , and seem to receive the su . perficial impressions in the space of three
months .
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... splendid eras of poetry , - - - and he also knows well , that those objects , if
worshipped by him with becoming and steadfast reverence , will repay the
worship which they receive , by the more fervent and divine inspiration which
they kindle .
... splendid eras of poetry , - - - and he also knows well , that those objects , if
worshipped by him with becoming and steadfast reverence , will repay the
worship which they receive , by the more fervent and divine inspiration which
they kindle .
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Nearly thirty have , by the General Election , been added to this number - -
forming a party which , under proper management , and with the support out of
doors which it may expect to receive , will assuredly render the continuance of
the ...
Nearly thirty have , by the General Election , been added to this number - -
forming a party which , under proper management , and with the support out of
doors which it may expect to receive , will assuredly render the continuance of
the ...
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He continued , accordingly , to go every day to the palace , where he was
received with cold civility ; and at last , when the troops were all assembled , he
received an order in the middle of the night , commanding him instantly to quit
France ...
He continued , accordingly , to go every day to the palace , where he was
received with cold civility ; and at last , when the troops were all assembled , he
received an order in the middle of the night , commanding him instantly to quit
France ...
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We resume it the more willingly , from our having just received a work , published
two or three years ago in Italy , but almost unknown in England , having for its
object to ascertain , whether this great poet was an inventor , or an imitator only .
We resume it the more willingly , from our having just received a work , published
two or three years ago in Italy , but almost unknown in England , having for its
object to ascertain , whether this great poet was an inventor , or an imitator only .
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Página 116 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 101 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 115 - Dark-heaving — boundless, endless and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 107 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald; — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 107 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 192 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 115 - The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him...
Página 114 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Página 116 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Página 109 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.