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... rivers run turbid and thick , charged with the foulness of many factories they have helped to set in motion . Then the tall chimneys begin to rise around you ; the country loses its fresh rurality of look ; the grass seems brown and ...
... rivers run turbid and thick , charged with the foulness of many factories they have helped to set in motion . Then the tall chimneys begin to rise around you ; the country loses its fresh rurality of look ; the grass seems brown and ...
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... River would be on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt ; King George's Sound about Candia ; and the Great Australian Bight would correspond with the shore of Africa stretching from the Levant to Algeria , Adelaide lying in the country ...
... River would be on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt ; King George's Sound about Candia ; and the Great Australian Bight would correspond with the shore of Africa stretching from the Levant to Algeria , Adelaide lying in the country ...
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... rivers like the Niger and the Nile rolling with unabated flow from the distant mountains to the sea . Having offered this correction of local prejudices and associations , let us now proceed to Australia , not where it might have been ...
... rivers like the Niger and the Nile rolling with unabated flow from the distant mountains to the sea . Having offered this correction of local prejudices and associations , let us now proceed to Australia , not where it might have been ...
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... rivers that flow into the interior from the flank of the eastern chain are gradually absorbed by the sands of this ... River . It is probable that these tertiary rocks spread into the great desert plains of the interior . The mountain ...
... rivers that flow into the interior from the flank of the eastern chain are gradually absorbed by the sands of this ... River . It is probable that these tertiary rocks spread into the great desert plains of the interior . The mountain ...
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... River rises , emphatically ' thanked God when they found their way out of them . ' All this broken country , rocky and bare as it may be , with scarcely a foot on its higher part of anything but hard brown sandstone to be seen , is yet ...
... River rises , emphatically ' thanked God when they found their way out of them . ' All this broken country , rocky and bare as it may be , with scarcely a foot on its higher part of anything but hard brown sandstone to be seen , is yet ...
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Page 31 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 30 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 5 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 1 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Page 28 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 24 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 9 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 15 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...