On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - Nature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 56
Page ix
... imagination , enriched by scenes like these , he resumed his pen and , with a view of noting the enjoyments with which science , literature , and the elegant arts , impregnate the privacy of life , he composed his AMUSEMENTS in RE ...
... imagination , enriched by scenes like these , he resumed his pen and , with a view of noting the enjoyments with which science , literature , and the elegant arts , impregnate the privacy of life , he composed his AMUSEMENTS in RE ...
Page x
... Imagination : and to render those meditations and reflections more permanently valuable , the author resolved upon engrafting them on the best portions of the Philosophy of Nature . Thus resolved , the plan became so extensive , that he ...
... Imagination : and to render those meditations and reflections more permanently valuable , the author resolved upon engrafting them on the best portions of the Philosophy of Nature . Thus resolved , the plan became so extensive , that he ...
Page xi
... imagination , ameliorate the heart , and purify the soul . O qui perpetuâ mundum ratione gubernas , Terrarum cœlique sator ! - Disjice terrena nebulas et ponderá molis , Atque tuo splendore mica ! -ta namque serenum , Tu requies ...
... imagination , ameliorate the heart , and purify the soul . O qui perpetuâ mundum ratione gubernas , Terrarum cœlique sator ! - Disjice terrena nebulas et ponderá molis , Atque tuo splendore mica ! -ta namque serenum , Tu requies ...
Page 16
... imagination associates with them the mistress of Cunningham : The gentle swan , with graceful pride , Her glossy plumage laves ; And sailing down the silver tide , Divides the whisp'ring waves : The silver tide , that wandering flows ...
... imagination associates with them the mistress of Cunningham : The gentle swan , with graceful pride , Her glossy plumage laves ; And sailing down the silver tide , Divides the whisp'ring waves : The silver tide , that wandering flows ...
Page 17
... imagination , those wild solitudes and fruitful de- serts , enlivened by the humming - bird , through which the Orionoco , the Mississippi , and the Amazon , ( rivers , to which the proudest streams of Europe are but as rivulets ) ...
... imagination , those wild solitudes and fruitful de- serts , enlivened by the humming - bird , through which the Orionoco , the Mississippi , and the Amazon , ( rivers , to which the proudest streams of Europe are but as rivulets ) ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Africa agreeable alludes ancient animals appear awful banks beautiful beheld beneath birds bosom Cader Idris called celebrated Celts clouds coast Colonna colour curious Deity delight Diodorus Siculus earth echo equal esteemed Euripides feet flowers forest formed frequently friends Greece grotto heard heaven Hist honour imagination Indian inhabitants island Italy Java king lake land Lapland Lelius lightning Livy Lucretius manner Maximus Tyrius mind Montesquieu moon moun Mount mountains natives nature never Niger nightingale Nile objects observed ocean Ovid passage perfumes Persians Petrarch plants Plin poets purple rising rivers rocks Romans sacred says scenes seen shade shores sings snow Sophocles soul sound species spot spring Strabo stranger sublime summit sweet Tacitus tain temple thou thunder Travels trees unfrequently vale vale of Tempe valley Vide voyage waves winds woods writers
Popular passages
Page 55 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 246 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way? or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?
Page 91 - So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree.
Page 170 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 14 - The greenwood path to meet her brother: They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the Forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow!
Page 287 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 76 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 371 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 55 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 263 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!