Life of Kenble. Kelly's Reminiscences. Davy's Salmonia. ANcient history of Scotland. On planting wast lands. Monteath's Foresters' guide. On landscape gardening. Sir H. Steuart's Planters' guide. Tytler's History of Scotland. Pitcairn's Criminal trails. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the currencyCarey & Hart, 1841 - English literature |
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... woods and mountains and lakes , lighted , it seems to us , by another sun , and in- habited by a race of beings different from ourselves , whose language is poetry , whose dress , demeanour , and sentiments seem something supernatural ...
... woods and mountains and lakes , lighted , it seems to us , by another sun , and in- habited by a race of beings different from ourselves , whose language is poetry , whose dress , demeanour , and sentiments seem something supernatural ...
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... woods the noble savage ran , " shall be considered as a crime , it is surely equally inhuman to cause to be killed , as it is to kill ; the guilt , surely , of the criminal who causes a murder to be committed , must be the same as that ...
... woods the noble savage ran , " shall be considered as a crime , it is surely equally inhuman to cause to be killed , as it is to kill ; the guilt , surely , of the criminal who causes a murder to be committed , must be the same as that ...
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... woods , likewise , are respectable for this northern country . I think I see islands , also , in the distance : and the quantity of cloud always gives effect to this kind of view ; and , perhaps , without such assist- ance to the ...
... woods , likewise , are respectable for this northern country . I think I see islands , also , in the distance : and the quantity of cloud always gives effect to this kind of view ; and , perhaps , without such assist- ance to the ...
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... wood below it , and the pines above , make a scene some- what Alpine in character . But what is that large bird soaring above the pointed rock , towards the end of the lake ? Surely it is an eagle ! " Hal . - You are right , it is an ...
... wood below it , and the pines above , make a scene some- what Alpine in character . But what is that large bird soaring above the pointed rock , towards the end of the lake ? Surely it is an eagle ! " Hal . - You are right , it is an ...
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... Wood , the Spanish Lady's Love , and twenty ballads more , stuck about the walls ; where the landlady is tidy , and handsome , and civil ; where they dress a chub so ad- mirably as to equal a trout , and wash him down with a modest cup ...
... Wood , the Spanish Lady's Love , and twenty ballads more , stuck about the walls ; where the landlady is tidy , and handsome , and civil ; where they dress a chub so ad- mirably as to equal a trout , and wash him down with a modest cup ...
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Page 19 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 194 - ... crash And merciless ravage: and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
Page 204 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 80 - ... second and larger gyration, — always rising towards the sun, and enlarging their circle of flight so as to make a gradually extending spiral. The young ones still slowly followed, apparently flying better as they mounted ; and they continued this sublime kind of exercise, always rising till they became mere points in the air, and the young ones were lost, and afterwards their parents, to our aching sight.
Page 65 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 122 - Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Page 39 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Page 250 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Page 24 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 65 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.