Armata: A Fragment, Band 1J. Murray, 1817 - 210 Seiten |
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Armata: A Fragment Volume V. 1-2 - Primary Source Edition Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, 1750-182,Thomas Erskine Erskine Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2014 |
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Seite 44 - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Seite 114 - I myself have seen the ungodly in great power : and flourishing like a green bay-tree. 37 I went by, and lo, he was gone : I sought him, but his place could no where be found.
Seite 56 - As when a scout, Through dark and desert ways with peril gone All night, at last by break of cheerful dawn Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill ; Which to his eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land First seen ; or some renown'd metropolis, With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn'd ; Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams.
Seite 169 - ... almost miraculous advance of chemistry, new means may be found, from the concentration of known composts and the discovery of new, to lessen the cost of culture, and to increase its returns. — But here again your revenue stalks like a ghost across my path whichever way I turn; as otherwise you have a superior unbounded source of im.provement trodden under your very feet, and cast as refuse into your rivers, beyond all that chemistry is ever likely to discover. — You have salt, you say, in...
Seite 87 - My confidence in this opinion is the more unshaken unshaken from the recollection that I held it at the very time, in common with a man whom to have known as I did would have repaid all the toils and perils you have undergone. — I look upon you, indeed, as a benighted traveller, to have been cast upon our shores after this great light was set. — Never was a being gifted with an understanding so perfect, nor aided by a perception which suffered nothing to escape from its dominion.
Seite 99 - ... to judge them. — In any other nation the consequences to the accused must have been FATAL : but there is a talisman in Armata which, whilst it is preserved inviolate, will make her immortal,— HER COURTS OF JUSTICE SPOKE ALOUD TO HER PARLIAMENT: —THUS FAR SHALT THOU GO, AND NO FARTHER.
Seite 110 - estimation,' according to the sense in which the author has employed * ' Armata,' Vol. II., p. 110. it, being a tender term for downright disrepute. In reference to the stage, he proceeds by saying:
Seite 111 - ... courted as they are by persons of high birth, the rest must depend upon themselves ; but it does not appear that good dinners, in good company, lead the generality of them to the pursuits of literature. " Without which learned and polished education, in the superior branches of acting there can be no brilliant succession. We might have self-taught genius even from the desert, but the ordinary soil of nature must be highly dressed. Does the learned and ingenious traveller to Armata mean to say...
Seite 136 - We have a creature called the bletur, which is not only the perfection of animal food, but whose covering, given it by nature, becomes, when manufactured, our own also, and for many ages has been the pride and wealth of our country. Would you then believe, that though other nations produce the same animals at an inferior price, from their climate and untaxed condition, so as to render all competition ridiculous ; yet this raw material is suffered to be imported, and worked up here, whilst the breeders...
Seite 153 - ... every species of property, by the almost infinite ways within' their reach; and secondly, by the immediate reduction of her expenditure to square with her revenue, as far as can be made consistent with the public safety and the principles of national justice. " A great orator in our ancient world, when asked what was the first, and the second, and the third perfection of eloquence, still answered ACTION, not to exclude other perfections but to mark its superior importance; so...