The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... flower , and behold with refined pleasure a field waving with grain , though the ground belongs to another : the success of the virtuous will put us in humour with this world , while the prosperity of the wicked will naturally incline ...
... flower , and behold with refined pleasure a field waving with grain , though the ground belongs to another : the success of the virtuous will put us in humour with this world , while the prosperity of the wicked will naturally incline ...
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... flowers , in their first state , fed upon putrescency . Some caterpillars , previous to their transformation , live even in a different element . The ephemeron fly , when in the caterpillar state , lives no less than three years in the ...
... flowers , in their first state , fed upon putrescency . Some caterpillars , previous to their transformation , live even in a different element . The ephemeron fly , when in the caterpillar state , lives no less than three years in the ...
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... flower , and the employment of an insect within its little cavity . I had the pleasure to attend yesterday a very amiable and worthy friend to his villa at a few miles distant from town ; and , while the company were high in mirth over ...
... flower , and the employment of an insect within its little cavity . I had the pleasure to attend yesterday a very amiable and worthy friend to his villa at a few miles distant from town ; and , while the company were high in mirth over ...
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... flowers , covering its whole surface . The beauty of such a glow of living purple would at any time have been an object of admiration ; but at a season when every thing else is dead , when not a leaf appears on any of the vegetable ...
... flowers , covering its whole surface . The beauty of such a glow of living purple would at any time have been an object of admiration ; but at a season when every thing else is dead , when not a leaf appears on any of the vegetable ...
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... flower , throwing itself into these uncertain forms , as they were then esteemed . The more improved science of our times disclaims such vague ideas , disclaims the supposition of nature's having made any thing , any the slightest ...
... flower , throwing itself into these uncertain forms , as they were then esteemed . The more improved science of our times disclaims such vague ideas , disclaims the supposition of nature's having made any thing , any the slightest ...
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Abah admiration Æneas Æneid Ajax Aleppo animal animalcules appeared Aristotle arms attention bashaw Beaumont and Fletcher beauty body Cadige called caterpillar charms colour contempt creature Curdistan death delight despise despise the sun Dido divine dreadful earth eggs elegant endeavour father flower fourth estate friends genius give Graces hand happy Hassein hath head heart honour human ideas imagination immediately infinite inhabitants insect INSPECTOR kind living look Lord LUCRETIUS Magiscatzin manner means ment Milton mind motion nature never night objects observation occasion pain parent passions perfect plant pleased pleasure poet poetry Polygnotus praise queen Quintilian Rabieh racter readers reptile scene seemed shew sight silence SILIUS ITALICUS sion soon soul species surface thee thing thou thought thousand tion Tlalock tragedy tree Virgil virtue whole wings worms young Zelis Zocathlan Zulima
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Seite 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Seite 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Seite 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Seite 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Seite 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Seite 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Seite 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Seite 68 - 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...