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... bark , the growth of the province of * Peru there . Such I take to be the meaning of this beautiful fable , and such the remedy which is primarily necessary for the cure of the pestilence . A second remedy pointed out by the poet is ...
... bark , the growth of the province of * Peru there . Such I take to be the meaning of this beautiful fable , and such the remedy which is primarily necessary for the cure of the pestilence . A second remedy pointed out by the poet is ...
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... bark , was introduced into the Old World , by means of the voyages of the English nation . But besides the account of this disease , and its cure , the passages lately cited or referred to , seem to have been intended also to convey a ...
... bark , was introduced into the Old World , by means of the voyages of the English nation . But besides the account of this disease , and its cure , the passages lately cited or referred to , seem to have been intended also to convey a ...
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... barking waves into attention , And fell Charibdis murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumbers lull'd the sense , 260 And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself f ; But such a sacred and home - felt delight , Such sober ...
... barking waves into attention , And fell Charibdis murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumbers lull'd the sense , 260 And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself f ; But such a sacred and home - felt delight , Such sober ...
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... bark . It has been shown , in treating of the Signs of the Zodiac , that the Island of Ceylon together with the adjoining peninsula of India ( both which produce the camphor tree in abun- dance ) constitute thesign Virgo , which is ...
... bark . It has been shown , in treating of the Signs of the Zodiac , that the Island of Ceylon together with the adjoining peninsula of India ( both which produce the camphor tree in abun- dance ) constitute thesign Virgo , which is ...
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... bark seems to be disguisedly involved in an oblique reference to its name of quina , or quinquina , as contained in the word queen , 445 ( silver - shafted , as the bark is found by the mountains of Peru which produce silver in such ...
... bark seems to be disguisedly involved in an oblique reference to its name of quina , or quinquina , as contained in the word queen , 445 ( silver - shafted , as the bark is found by the mountains of Peru which produce silver in such ...
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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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Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 166 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...