The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volumen5Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
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... shower in an hour or two as in a whole day's mizzling rain ; and yet the former may be a fine , sunny , and beautiful day ; the latter , a wet and miserable one . The temperature of rain as it descends is , doubtless , very various ; it ...
... shower in an hour or two as in a whole day's mizzling rain ; and yet the former may be a fine , sunny , and beautiful day ; the latter , a wet and miserable one . The temperature of rain as it descends is , doubtless , very various ; it ...
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... showers ; towards the middle of the month , heavy continued rain and floods . August was generally wet , with a marked and continued decline of temperature towards the end . September was re- markably fine , October seasonable , and ...
... showers ; towards the middle of the month , heavy continued rain and floods . August was generally wet , with a marked and continued decline of temperature towards the end . September was re- markably fine , October seasonable , and ...
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... showers : And with each end of thy blue bow , dost crown My bosky acres , and my unshrubb'd down— Rich scarf to my proud earth , " & c . How lovelily this is painted ! we behold at once the flowers and fields with " warm rain wet ...
... showers : And with each end of thy blue bow , dost crown My bosky acres , and my unshrubb'd down— Rich scarf to my proud earth , " & c . How lovelily this is painted ! we behold at once the flowers and fields with " warm rain wet ...
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... showers . " " White the shroud as mountain snow , " white being the peculiar mourning - colour for the young . This feature of her diseased fancy - this wandering and mixture of ideas , of opposite characters - this investment of one ...
... showers . " " White the shroud as mountain snow , " white being the peculiar mourning - colour for the young . This feature of her diseased fancy - this wandering and mixture of ideas , of opposite characters - this investment of one ...
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... showers fell . Towards the middle of the month the temperature rose to 76 ° ; the latter end of the month again brought some welcome showers and a mild summer heat . Once during the first week in July , the thermometer rose to 84 ° ; at ...
... showers fell . Towards the middle of the month the temperature rose to 76 ° ; the latter end of the month again brought some welcome showers and a mild summer heat . Once during the first week in July , the thermometer rose to 84 ° ; at ...
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Página 69 - For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be...
Página 260 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Página 65 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 200 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 47 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 64 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 266 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 66 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 261 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Página 59 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.