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... truth and sufficiency of every touch ; the com- mand of chiaroscuro , in which the sombre was relieved by the brilliant , the terrible by the pa- thetic ; the closeness , pregnancy , and elegance of diction ; the delicate and masterly ...
... truth and sufficiency of every touch ; the com- mand of chiaroscuro , in which the sombre was relieved by the brilliant , the terrible by the pa- thetic ; the closeness , pregnancy , and elegance of diction ; the delicate and masterly ...
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... truth . Accounts differ as to the number of volcanoes , even in parts of the world fully explored ; some travellers classing as extinct , mountains which others regard as active ; some giving as separate volcanoes what others class as ...
... truth . Accounts differ as to the number of volcanoes , even in parts of the world fully explored ; some travellers classing as extinct , mountains which others regard as active ; some giving as separate volcanoes what others class as ...
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... truths which belong especially to his own science . It is the business of the geologist to explain the physical appearance of the globe so far as inorganic nature is concerned , and so far as it is due to mechanical causes . If he steps ...
... truths which belong especially to his own science . It is the business of the geologist to explain the physical appearance of the globe so far as inorganic nature is concerned , and so far as it is due to mechanical causes . If he steps ...
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... truth , and to make consequent reformation . Dr. Cooke . - Well , this is one of the lamest cases that ever was proposed ; and I again use the words sinister and left - handed - I use them ad- visedly- Dr. Coulter . - I altogether deny ...
... truth , and to make consequent reformation . Dr. Cooke . - Well , this is one of the lamest cases that ever was proposed ; and I again use the words sinister and left - handed - I use them ad- visedly- Dr. Coulter . - I altogether deny ...
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... Truth's Victory with his life by Wodrow , Glasgow , 1772 , Thus it is clear that the most excellent code for 12. occurs the following passage ( Life , p . xxi ) . the regulation of cabs and cabinen may be in exist- Wodrow says , he ...
... Truth's Victory with his life by Wodrow , Glasgow , 1772 , Thus it is clear that the most excellent code for 12. occurs the following passage ( Life , p . xxi ) . the regulation of cabs and cabinen may be in exist- Wodrow says , he ...
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Página 276 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 35 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 131 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Página 334 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Página 171 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 25 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 276 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew...
Página 89 - The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me. As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
Página 334 - Thou faery voyager ! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision ! happy child ! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.