The Worthies of Westmorland: Or, Notable Persons Born in that County Since the Reformation, Volumen 2J. Robinson, 1850 |
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... nature of the soil , productions , commodities , and husbandry of the country , in the following pages form the subject - matter of distinct chapters ; in which ( amongst other things ) , he describes the Alcaróbe tree ( the fruit of ...
... nature of the soil , productions , commodities , and husbandry of the country , in the following pages form the subject - matter of distinct chapters ; in which ( amongst other things ) , he describes the Alcaróbe tree ( the fruit of ...
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... nature of his labours , and the sources of his information ; he delivers his opinion on particular readings , and gives the first genealogy of the editions of the Greek Testament . Many set a higher value on this than upon the body of ...
... nature of his labours , and the sources of his information ; he delivers his opinion on particular readings , and gives the first genealogy of the editions of the Greek Testament . Many set a higher value on this than upon the body of ...
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... nature of things , and what are common and in equal proportion in all classics whatever , I hope this panic will be removed , and the text be thought as fine as before . If there had been but one Ms. of the Greek Testament , at the ...
... nature of things , and what are common and in equal proportion in all classics whatever , I hope this panic will be removed , and the text be thought as fine as before . If there had been but one Ms. of the Greek Testament , at the ...
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... Nature's works can charm , with God himself Hold converse ; grow familiar , day by day , With his conceptions ; act upon his plan ; And form to his the relish of their souls . " AKENSIDE . T has been said , that not one of a thousand ...
... Nature's works can charm , with God himself Hold converse ; grow familiar , day by day , With his conceptions ; act upon his plan ; And form to his the relish of their souls . " AKENSIDE . T has been said , that not one of a thousand ...
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... Natural , and Physical Account of Barbary and Egypt , and in Lancelot Addison's essay on the moral , social , and religious condition of the former , Westmorland can say that she has rescued from oblivion- " The Queen of nations and the ...
... Natural , and Physical Account of Barbary and Egypt , and in Lancelot Addison's essay on the moral , social , and religious condition of the former , Westmorland can say that she has rescued from oblivion- " The Queen of nations and the ...
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Página 330 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Página 277 - The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue ; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.
Página 329 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun,— Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 304 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er "which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Página 304 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 251 - Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the mainmast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her decks, which was at last effected.
Página 329 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...
Página 330 - Whose Fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God as with a Mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne With other notes than to th...
Página 331 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 330 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.