Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In which the Geography, Character, Customs, and Manners of Nations are Described, and the Phenomena of Nature, Most Worthy of Observation, are Illustrated on Scientific PrinciplesG. & W.B. Whittaker, 1820 - Всего страниц: 506 |
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... hundred and thirty fathoms , and are extended under the sea to places where there is above them , sufficient depth of water for ships of large burthen . " 66 Astonishing ! " exclaimed Edward . " These are the deepest coal mines that ...
... hundred and thirty fathoms , and are extended under the sea to places where there is above them , sufficient depth of water for ships of large burthen . " 66 Astonishing ! " exclaimed Edward . " These are the deepest coal mines that ...
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... hundred and forty ; into so many fragments are they divided , and yet there are but six inhabited . 6 " But no circumstance can show the great alterations which have taken place in the number and extent of these islands , more than the ...
... hundred and forty ; into so many fragments are they divided , and yet there are but six inhabited . 6 " But no circumstance can show the great alterations which have taken place in the number and extent of these islands , more than the ...
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... hundred pounds weight of this mixture they added twelve pounds and a half of a mix- ture , composed of equal parts of lead and tin . Bell metal is also composed of tin and copper . And the best specula of the ancients were composed of ...
... hundred pounds weight of this mixture they added twelve pounds and a half of a mix- ture , composed of equal parts of lead and tin . Bell metal is also composed of tin and copper . And the best specula of the ancients were composed of ...
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... hundred fathoms , and also by their lying in a sloping manner to the south - west quarter . The effect of this slope on the rush of waters in stormy weather is terrific ; and after a heavy gale , where all appears superfi- cially calm ...
... hundred fathoms , and also by their lying in a sloping manner to the south - west quarter . The effect of this slope on the rush of waters in stormy weather is terrific ; and after a heavy gale , where all appears superfi- cially calm ...
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... hundred pounds . He was the second possessor , for Henry VIII . gave the priory to William Pinnocke , who alienated it to John Knotsford . Before the conquest , this place was a wilderness , and some of the monks from Worcester Priory ...
... hundred pounds . He was the second possessor , for Henry VIII . gave the priory to William Pinnocke , who alienated it to John Knotsford . Before the conquest , this place was a wilderness , and some of the monks from Worcester Priory ...
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Стр. 225 - Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Стр. 148 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Стр. 378 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Стр. 210 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Стр. 225 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 29 - ... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles, well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains, with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot...
Стр. 95 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Стр. 225 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Стр. 471 - Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of Nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely bless'd, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Стр. 494 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.