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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Side xi
... observation may have traced , and their memory treasured . His sometime pupil , and late years friend , the ingenious Mr. Bilsborrow , is writing , or has written , his Life ; but since Dr. Darwin constantly shrunk with reserved pride ...
... observation may have traced , and their memory treasured . His sometime pupil , and late years friend , the ingenious Mr. Bilsborrow , is writing , or has written , his Life ; but since Dr. Darwin constantly shrunk with reserved pride ...
Side 18
... observed , ought always to be involved in the verses . It must , however , be confessed , that , in this case , the noun personal was not calculated to ap- pear with grace in verse ; but that consideration , though it doubtless caused ...
... observed , ought always to be involved in the verses . It must , however , be confessed , that , in this case , the noun personal was not calculated to ap- pear with grace in verse ; but that consideration , though it doubtless caused ...
Side 24
... observed , that marriage is often the grave of love , but scarcely ever its cradle ; and what hope of happiness , what hope of a blessing on nuptials , which commence with perjury ! Even at that period , " when youth , elate and gay ...
... observed , that marriage is often the grave of love , but scarcely ever its cradle ; and what hope of happiness , what hope of a blessing on nuptials , which commence with perjury ! Even at that period , " when youth , elate and gay ...
Side 44
... observations on the habits of life ; with that decision of conduct , which always instantly followed the conviction of his mind , he sent Charles abroad ; at once to break the force of habit , formed on the contagion of daily example ...
... observations on the habits of life ; with that decision of conduct , which always instantly followed the conviction of his mind , he sent Charles abroad ; at once to break the force of habit , formed on the contagion of daily example ...
Side 57
... observed , " Christ says , Swear not at " all . St. Paul tells us we may swear occasionally . " Mr. Robinson advises us to swear incessantly . " Let us compromise between these counsellors , " and swear by non - en - ti - ties . I will ...
... observed , " Christ says , Swear not at " all . St. Paul tells us we may swear occasionally . " Mr. Robinson advises us to swear incessantly . " Let us compromise between these counsellors , " and swear by non - en - ti - ties . I will ...
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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...