On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations, Volume 31837 |
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... Persia could not refrain from congratulating himself , that men died there , as well as else- where and now exhibiting , in one single monument , a struc- ture so admirable , that the Abbé Barthelemy recognised in it all the grandeur of ...
... Persia could not refrain from congratulating himself , that men died there , as well as else- where and now exhibiting , in one single monument , a struc- ture so admirable , that the Abbé Barthelemy recognised in it all the grandeur of ...
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... Persia . The power of association gives a charm to every thing . Hence particular places are adapted to the consideration of particular subjects . When leaning near the monuments of neglected genius , our thoughts naturally revert to ...
... Persia . The power of association gives a charm to every thing . Hence particular places are adapted to the consideration of particular subjects . When leaning near the monuments of neglected genius , our thoughts naturally revert to ...
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... PERSIA are the ruins of Persepolis ; with edifices and carved caves , preceding the age of Mahomet . In the valley of Moses , in ARABIA , are the ruins of Wadi - Moosa . These once constituted the city of Petra , the capital of Arabia ...
... PERSIA are the ruins of Persepolis ; with edifices and carved caves , preceding the age of Mahomet . In the valley of Moses , in ARABIA , are the ruins of Wadi - Moosa . These once constituted the city of Petra , the capital of Arabia ...
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... Persia , solely for the purpose of seeing the ruins of Persepolis : and no one but the idle , the dissipated , and ... Persian , the Gre- cian , and the Roman . All our religion , almost all our law , almost all our arts , almost all ...
... Persia , solely for the purpose of seeing the ruins of Persepolis : and no one but the idle , the dissipated , and ... Persian , the Gre- cian , and the Roman . All our religion , almost all our law , almost all our arts , almost all ...
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... Persia , he was charmed with a festival , held every year , at Demawend , to celebrate the death of the tyrant Zohak . The people of the town and villages meet together in the fields , some on mules , and others on horses , and white ...
... Persia , he was charmed with a festival , held every year , at Demawend , to celebrate the death of the tyrant Zohak . The people of the town and villages meet together in the fields , some on mules , and others on horses , and white ...
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Page 297 - Holland fleet, who, tir'd and done, Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.
Page 25 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 37 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Page 201 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 164 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 112 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 253 - Time may come, when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare ; And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Page 180 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 100 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...