The poetical works of J. BidlakeJ. Murray, 32, Fleet Street; and J. Harding, 36, St James's Street, 1804 - 252 páginas |
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Almeria ANACREON art thou beams beauty Behold beneath blest bliss bloom blushing bosom breast breath bright brow calm charms cheer cherub clouds dark death deep delight dread drest e'en e'er ev'ry fading fair faithless fix'd Fleet Street fleeting flow'r fond frown gale gilded gloom glow golden grace green grief groves hail heart heav'n heav'nly hope hour infant innocence life's light little hour Medusa meek melting morn mourn musing nature's ne'er night nodding o'er pain peace pensive pleas'd pomp poor pow'r pride proud raptur'd rapture reign rill round sacred scene shades shed shine shun sigh silence skies sleep smile snowy white soft solemn sorrow soul spread steal storm stream sweet swelling tears tempest thee thou thro THRUSH tide toil tomb tread trembling vale vex'd waste wave weeps wild winds wing youth
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Página 251 - Plutarch : exhibiting the most distinguished characters, literary, military, and political, in the recent annals of the French republic ; the greater part from the original information of a gentleman resident at Paris. [By Lewis GOLDSMITH.] To which, as an appendix, is reprinted entire, the celebrated pamphlet of " Killing no murder
Página 189 - ... their tentacles, being disposed in regular circles, and tinged with a variety of bright lively colours, very nearly represent the beautiful petals of some of our most elegantly fringed and radiated flowers, such as the Actinia Mcsembryanthemum. carnation, marigold, and anemone.
Página 189 - ... the smaller fry ; and even these chiefly subsist upon spawn. Of those which live in the ocean, of the spinous kinds, the dorado is the most voracious. This is chiefly found in the tropical climates ; and is at once the most active and the most beautiful of the finny region. It is about six feet long ; the back all over enamelled with spots of a bluish green and silver; the tail and fins of a gold colour; and all have a brilliancy of tint, that nothing but nature's pencil can attain to; the eyes...
Página 189 - For though it should escape from its enemies of the deep, yet the tropic bird and the albatross are for ever upon the wing to seize it. Thus pursued in either element, it sometimes seeks refuge from a new enemy ; and it is not unfrequent for whole shoals of them to fall on shipboard, where they furnish man with an object of useless curiosity. The warfare in fresh water is not carried on with such destructive activity ; nor are the inhabitants of that element so numerous.
Página 27 - Such slow discerument guides the stupid crowd, That Impudence for Talent is allow'd : In Life's true masquerade fools are so blind, That half a thin disguise will cheat mankind: Here Ostentation weak expedients tries, To lead from happiness our wand'ring eyes...
Página 252 - An ESSAY on the MANNERS and GENIUS of the LITERARY CHARACTER. Contents : Of Literary Men ; Of Authors ; Men of Letters ; On some Characteristics of a Youth of Genius; Of Literary Solitude ; On the Meditations and Conversations of Men of Genius ; Men of Genius limited in their Art ; Some Observations respecting the Infirmities and Defects of Men of Genius ; Of Literary Friendships and Enmities; The Characters of Writers not discoverable in their Writings; Of some private Advantages which induce Men...
Página 189 - DORADO, but which the sailors erroneously term the dolphin ; it is chiefly found in the tropical climates ; and is at once the most active and the most beautiful of the finny race. It is about six feet long ; the back all over enamelled with spots of a bluish green and silver ; the tail and fins of a gold colour ; and all have a brilliancy of tint, that nothing but nature's pencil can attain to : the eyes are placed on each side of the head, large and beautiful, surrounded with circles of shining...
Página 87 - That bids young Hope new plume his wing, Soon as thy buds appear; While o'er the incense-breathing sky The tepid hours first dare to fly, And vainly woo the chilling breeze; That bred in Winter's frozen lap, Still struggling chains the ling'ring sap Within the widow'd trees.
Página 190 - The bodies of some of them are hemispherical, of others cylindrical, and others are shaped like a fig. Their substance likewise differs : some are stiff and gelatinous, others fleshy and muscular; but all of them are capable of altering their figure, when they extend their bodies and claws in search of food. They are found...
Página 186 - After all, it may be observed, that we are inquiring into the cause of a phenomenon, which it may be said had no secondary cause at all. It is taken for granted in this disquisition, that the water which covered the globe in its chaotic state, was not impregnated with salt as at present, but quite fresh ; now this is an opinion concerning a matter of fact, which can never be proved either way ; and surely we extend our speculations very far, when we attempt to explain a phenomenon, primeval to, or...