Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in progress to which many compositions are put in a light entirely new, Volúmenes5-61813 |
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Página 103
... Cuba . ( 1 ) Let us suppose the Attendant Spirit to be the fresh air or wind ( as hinted in line 4 , ) which takes its station upon the mountains ( 89 ) , and exercises other functions appropriate to the air or wind , according to the ...
... Cuba . ( 1 ) Let us suppose the Attendant Spirit to be the fresh air or wind ( as hinted in line 4 , ) which takes its station upon the mountains ( 89 ) , and exercises other functions appropriate to the air or wind , according to the ...
Página 110
... Cuba , as will appear from a future figure ; but it may be fit to mention at present , that that island as girt on its south side by a num- ber of small islands , called Le Jardin de la Reine , in its general shape resembles a comb , as ...
... Cuba , as will appear from a future figure ; but it may be fit to mention at present , that that island as girt on its south side by a num- ber of small islands , called Le Jardin de la Reine , in its general shape resembles a comb , as ...
Página 111
... Cuba , which last as well by the currents as by the hurricanes which infest those seas , are liable to shift their position . ( 61 ) The ominous wood I take to be referable to the forests of timber with which the cluster of low sandy ...
... Cuba , which last as well by the currents as by the hurricanes which infest those seas , are liable to shift their position . ( 61 ) The ominous wood I take to be referable to the forests of timber with which the cluster of low sandy ...
Página 113
... Cuba : the word comely evidently involves a pun upon the name of Comus , and a pun thus early resorted to may lead one to expect many more hereafter . That the drinking of unwholesome , impure , brackish waters , is really adequate to ...
... Cuba : the word comely evidently involves a pun upon the name of Comus , and a pun thus early resorted to may lead one to expect many more hereafter . That the drinking of unwholesome , impure , brackish waters , is really adequate to ...
Página 118
... , ( or head of the river Mamore ) being a symbol of the catho- lic faith . * On inspecting the map of Cuba , ( the proto- type of Comus , who is copied from it in Fig . 184 , hand , his glass in the other ; with him 118.
... , ( or head of the river Mamore ) being a symbol of the catho- lic faith . * On inspecting the map of Cuba , ( the proto- type of Comus , who is copied from it in Fig . 184 , hand , his glass in the other ; with him 118.
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Achilles Æneid Africa allude allusion alum ancient Andromache appear apprehend Arabian Gulf Bay of Honduras called Cape character China Chinese Chryseis circumstance coast Comus constellation contain Cuba derived disease drawn in fig Egypt epithet explained expression fable fever figure following lines further Gemini Greek gum lac head Hector hieroglyphics Homer Iliad implied intended island Jardin Lady Mamore means mentioned moon mountains mouth noticed observed Odyssey passage perhaps Persian Gulf Peruvian bark pestilence plague of Athens poem poet poetical Priam prototype reader reference remarkable represented resemblance seems shape shew side situate South America Spain Straits supposed Tartary Taurus tion tropic tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land volcanoes volume West India Gulf word zodiac Αλλ αρ γαρ δε δη εκ εν ενι επει επι ες και μεν ος περι τε τοι
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Página 151 - That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence?
Página 89 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Página 227 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 85 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 276 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Página 149 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 159 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Página 216 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.
Página 138 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Página 166 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...