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 Seiten |
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... ardour , strove to raise At once their art and country's praise ; And , in the working , took great care That all was full and round , and fair . " The circumstances of Mr. Day's disposition , habits , and 18 MEMOIRS OF.
... ardour , strove to raise At once their art and country's praise ; And , in the working , took great care That all was full and round , and fair . " The circumstances of Mr. Day's disposition , habits , and 18 MEMOIRS OF.
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... fair , Start into life beneath the potent wand . Here , proudly nodding o'er the vale below , High rocks of pearl reflect the morning ray , Whence gushing streams of azure nectar flow , And tinge the trickling herbage on their way ...
... fair , Start into life beneath the potent wand . Here , proudly nodding o'er the vale below , High rocks of pearl reflect the morning ray , Whence gushing streams of azure nectar flow , And tinge the trickling herbage on their way ...
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... fair scenes of bliss , Ideal scenes , too long believ'd in vain , Plung'd down and swallow'd deep in Time's abyss ! ... So veering Chance , and ruthless fates ordain . Thee , Laura , thee , by fount , or mazy stream , Or thicket rude ...
... fair scenes of bliss , Ideal scenes , too long believ'd in vain , Plung'd down and swallow'd deep in Time's abyss ! ... So veering Chance , and ruthless fates ordain . Thee , Laura , thee , by fount , or mazy stream , Or thicket rude ...
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... fair , with flaxen locks , and light eyes ; her he called Lucretia . The other , a clear , auburn brunette , with darker eyes , more glowing bloom , and chesnut tresses , he named Sabrina . These girls were obtained on written condi ...
... fair , with flaxen locks , and light eyes ; her he called Lucretia . The other , a clear , auburn brunette , with darker eyes , more glowing bloom , and chesnut tresses , he named Sabrina . These girls were obtained on written condi ...
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... eight months , heartily glad to separate the little squabblers . Sabrina was become the favourite . He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber milliner . She behaved well , and became the wife of a respectable linen- DR . DARWIN . 27.
... eight months , heartily glad to separate the little squabblers . Sabrina was become the favourite . He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber milliner . She behaved well , and became the wife of a respectable linen- DR . DARWIN . 27.
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Seite 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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...