 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages, not unworthy of this strain. The work, as we had occasion... | |
 | 1828 - 592 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages, not unworthy of this strain. The work, as we had occasion... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 300 Seiten
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and far above...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair! *. ' .*».».'.:. , SIXTH DAY. HALIEUS — POIETES — ORNITHER— PHYSICUS. MORNING. HAL. — Well... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 Seiten
...divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages, not unworthy of this strain. The work, as we had occasion... | |
 | 1829 - 512 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" Few of those whose fame and fortune are their own creation, enjoy, as did Sir Humphry Davy, in the... | |
 | 1830 - 478 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair ! " How beautiful is the following passage, in which (as has been justly observed by one of the most... | |
 | 1830 - 494 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" How beautiful is the following passage, in which (as has been justly observed by one of the most... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." Sir Humphry's published works, besides the one above alluded to, are, — Chemical and Philosophical... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 Seiten
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise; and, far above...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!" 108 He left two sons, Jacob and Tillemant. Tillemant became a master coachman between Oxford and London,... | |
 | 1831 - 584 Seiten
...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and -despair. — Sir Humphrey Davy. If calamities befall us for other men's sakes, so that we bear the punishment... | |
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... creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument... 
