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... Italy , and Bacon in England , at once dispelled the darkness : the one by his inventions and discoveries ; the other , by the irresistible force of his arguments and eloquence . Finally , the improvement effected in the condition of ...
... Italy , and Bacon in England , at once dispelled the darkness : the one by his inventions and discoveries ; the other , by the irresistible force of his arguments and eloquence . Finally , the improvement effected in the condition of ...
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... Italy , in 1798-9 . He was a scholar , and a man of taste ; and his letters are full of indignation at the rapacity of the French conquerors . After the peace of Amiens he published several translations from the Greek . On the renewal ...
... Italy , in 1798-9 . He was a scholar , and a man of taste ; and his letters are full of indignation at the rapacity of the French conquerors . After the peace of Amiens he published several translations from the Greek . On the renewal ...
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... Italy , and even France itself . I am at least certain , that Great Britain , and all those nations , would flourish more , did their sovereigns and ministers adopt . such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other . 19. - A ...
... Italy , and even France itself . I am at least certain , that Great Britain , and all those nations , would flourish more , did their sovereigns and ministers adopt . such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other . 19. - A ...
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... Italy , having been long waiting , in the end of March , for the arrival of the double snipe in the Campagna of Rome , a great flight appeared on the 3rd of April , and the day after heavy rain set in , which greatly interfered with my ...
... Italy , having been long waiting , in the end of March , for the arrival of the double snipe in the Campagna of Rome , a great flight appeared on the 3rd of April , and the day after heavy rain set in , which greatly interfered with my ...
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... Italy , and Germany , and England , have each produced their philosophers , their poets , and their historians , worthy to be placed on the same level with those of Greece and Rome . But although there is not the same reason now which ...
... Italy , and Germany , and England , have each produced their philosophers , their poets , and their historians , worthy to be placed on the same level with those of Greece and Rome . But although there is not the same reason now which ...
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Page 251 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Page 251 - The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylight Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight...
Page 251 - THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth...
Page 28 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 204 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 282 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest...
Page 128 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 189 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Page 42 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 252 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If you would have...