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 sider |
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... Botanic Garden ; remarks upon his philosophic prose writings ; the characters and talents of those who formed the circle of his friends while he resided.
... Botanic Garden ; remarks upon his philosophic prose writings ; the characters and talents of those who formed the circle of his friends while he resided.
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... botanic garden , but a medical summons into the country deprived her of that pleasure . She took her tablets and pencil , and , seated on a flower- bank , in the midst of that luxuriant retreat , wrote the following lines , while the ...
... botanic garden , but a medical summons into the country deprived her of that pleasure . She took her tablets and pencil , and , seated on a flower- bank , in the midst of that luxuriant retreat , wrote the following lines , while the ...
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... Botanic Garden passed the press , and had borne her signature . ' phoses of the Ovidian kind , though reversed , 94 MEMOIRS OF.
... Botanic Garden passed the press , and had borne her signature . ' phoses of the Ovidian kind , though reversed , 94 MEMOIRS OF.
Side 95
... Botanic Garden , to the Gentleman's Magazine , and in her name . From thence they were copied in the Annual Register ; but , without consulting her , he had substituted for the last six lines , eight of his own . DR . DARWIN . 95.
... Botanic Garden , to the Gentleman's Magazine , and in her name . From thence they were copied in the Annual Register ; but , without consulting her , he had substituted for the last six lines , eight of his own . DR . DARWIN . 95.
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... Botanic Garden . While the powers of metrical landscape - paint- ing are the theme , not unwelcome to those who feel its inchantment , will be instances which must prove that they are possessed by Mr. John Gisborne in a degree which ...
... Botanic Garden . While the powers of metrical landscape - paint- ing are the theme , not unwelcome to those who feel its inchantment , will be instances which must prove that they are possessed by Mr. John Gisborne in a degree which ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1804 |
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Side 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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...