The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... covered : it was somewhat long before this thicker colder medium transmitted the influence that had in- vigorated the inhabitants of the air ; but by de- grees , the soul of nature , the Promethean uni- versal fire , made its way ...
... covered : it was somewhat long before this thicker colder medium transmitted the influence that had in- vigorated the inhabitants of the air ; but by de- grees , the soul of nature , the Promethean uni- versal fire , made its way ...
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... covering . Such is , undoubtedly , the production of the butterfly from the silk - worm , and from all the caterpillar ... covered by a pe- culiar case , and preserved from injuries in it , till its wings , and every other part of its 30 ...
... covering . Such is , undoubtedly , the production of the butterfly from the silk - worm , and from all the caterpillar ... covered by a pe- culiar case , and preserved from injuries in it , till its wings , and every other part of its 30 ...
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... covering its whole surface . The beauty of such a glow of living purple would at any time have been an object of admiration ; but at a season when every thing else is dead , when not a leaf appears on any of the vegetable world besides ...
... covering its whole surface . The beauty of such a glow of living purple would at any time have been an object of admiration ; but at a season when every thing else is dead , when not a leaf appears on any of the vegetable world besides ...
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... covering . She once more placed herself on the summit of a little twig , and soon began to clear her body of this new gathered dust . It was with great admiration that I observed the readiness with which she executed this ; it was not ...
... covering . She once more placed herself on the summit of a little twig , and soon began to clear her body of this new gathered dust . It was with great admiration that I observed the readiness with which she executed this ; it was not ...
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... covered as thick almost with bees as with flowers . All these employed themselves exactly as the first had done , except that some of them being reduced to enter flowers yet hardly opened , in which the reservoirs of this waxy powder ...
... covered as thick almost with bees as with flowers . All these employed themselves exactly as the first had done , except that some of them being reduced to enter flowers yet hardly opened , in which the reservoirs of this waxy powder ...
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Abah admiration Æneas Æneid Ajax Aleppo animal animalcules appeared Aristotle arms attention bashaw Beaumont and Fletcher beauty body Cadige called caterpillar charms colour contempt creature Curdistan death delight despise despise the sun Dido divine dreadful earth eggs elegant endeavour father flower fourth estate friends genius give Graces hand happy Hassein hath head heart honour human ideas imagination immediately infinite inhabitants insect INSPECTOR kind living look Lord LUCRETIUS Magiscatzin manner means ment Milton mind motion nature never night objects observation occasion pain parent passions perfect plant pleased pleasure poet poetry Polygnotus praise queen Quintilian Rabieh racter readers reptile scene seemed shew sight silence SILIUS ITALICUS sion soon soul species surface thee thing thou thought thousand tion Tlalock tragedy tree Virgil virtue whole wings worms young Zelis Zocathlan Zulima
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Página 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Página 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Página 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Página 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Página 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Página 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Página 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Página 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...