The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... soon decay of itself , that I opened my mouth : I was in hopes that advice from an oak might make more impression than any animate being can give . My brothers of Dodona , you may remember , were often consulted ; and why should a ...
... soon decay of itself , that I opened my mouth : I was in hopes that advice from an oak might make more impression than any animate being can give . My brothers of Dodona , you may remember , were often consulted ; and why should a ...
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... soon as the oak had done speak- ing , he ordered his workmen to proceed . When immediately , as Virgil has it , - Ferro accisam crebrisque bipennibus instant , Eruere agricolæ certatim : illa usque minatur , Et tremefacta comam concusso ...
... soon as the oak had done speak- ing , he ordered his workmen to proceed . When immediately , as Virgil has it , - Ferro accisam crebrisque bipennibus instant , Eruere agricolæ certatim : illa usque minatur , Et tremefacta comam concusso ...
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... soon to meet his radiance with a more cheerful aspect : the little lambs that had hitherto , since their very birth , known no enjoyment beyond the supplying the calls of nature from the cold wet herbage , now seemed to feel new motions ...
... soon to meet his radiance with a more cheerful aspect : the little lambs that had hitherto , since their very birth , known no enjoyment beyond the supplying the calls of nature from the cold wet herbage , now seemed to feel new motions ...
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... soon after to disclose beings of a higher rank ; myriads of worms were seen unwinding their coiled forms , and tossing their sportive tails about in wantonness and re- velry ; whole series of creatures , whose torpid state had before ...
... soon after to disclose beings of a higher rank ; myriads of worms were seen unwinding their coiled forms , and tossing their sportive tails about in wantonness and re- velry ; whole series of creatures , whose torpid state had before ...
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... soon after began to vibrate its leafy tail , to play the several rings of an elegantly constructed body , and to poise six delicate legs , as if to try whether they were fit for use ; numbers of others followed it , and in a few minutes ...
... soon after began to vibrate its leafy tail , to play the several rings of an elegantly constructed body , and to poise six delicate legs , as if to try whether they were fit for use ; numbers of others followed it , and in a few minutes ...
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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...