Nature of the animal worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 |
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Pàgina 248 - Cawing rooks and kites, that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud. The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake.*
Pàgina 356 - T is of human entrails made ; —- And the weights that play below — Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipp'd in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword! — that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Pàgina 46 - songsters, in the fresh'ning shade, Of new-sprung leaves their modulations mix Mellifluous. The jay, the rook, the daw, And each harsh pipe, discordant heard alone, Aid the full concert: while the stock-dove breathes A melancholy murmur through the
Pàgina 356 - The Fatal Sisters." Now the storm begins to lower (Haste! the loom of hell prepare) ; Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. Glittering lances are the loom Where the
Pàgina 129 - Sure, by quick nature, happiness to gain, Which heavier Reason labours at in vain. This, too, serves always, Reason never long, One must go right, the other may go wrong; See then the acting and comparing powers, One in their nature, which are two in ours; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 't is God directs, in that't is man.
Pàgina 276 - alphabetic characters. Thus, in the passage in which writing is first mentioned in the Scriptures, " And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
Pàgina 391 - But see each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays; ROME'S ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears
Pàgina 143 - in a very different manner. The squirrel, after rasping off the small end, splits the shell in two with his long fore-teeth, as a man does with his knife : the field-mouse nibbles a hole with his teeth as regular as if drilled with a wimble, and yet so small that
Pàgina 391 - reverend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live: With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A RAPHAEL painted, and a VIDA sung.
Pàgina 257 - Proinde, putare aliquem tum nomina distribuisse Rebus, et inde homines didicisse vocabula prima, Desipere est: nam quur hie posset cuncta notare Vocibus, et varios sonitus emittere linguae, Tempore eodem aliei facere id non quisse putentur ? Praeterea, si non aliei quoque vocibus usei Inter se fuerant, unde insita notifies est?