A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volumen11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... leg , and the head ; but what surprised them most was , that the head was adorned with a kind of glory , consisting of three or four small concentric crowns , of a very lively color , each exhibiting all the varieties of the pri- mary ...
... leg , and the head ; but what surprised them most was , that the head was adorned with a kind of glory , consisting of three or four small concentric crowns , of a very lively color , each exhibiting all the varieties of the pri- mary ...
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... Leg- horn , Naples , Messina , London , Lubec , Rostock , Stralsund , Stetin , Wismar , Konigsberg , Dantzic , Elbing , and Marienburg . The alliance was now so powerful , that their ships of war were often hired by other princes to ...
... Leg- horn , Naples , Messina , London , Lubec , Rostock , Stralsund , Stetin , Wismar , Konigsberg , Dantzic , Elbing , and Marienburg . The alliance was now so powerful , that their ships of war were often hired by other princes to ...
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... legs . To fix the glasses on a spindle , a cork is first to be fitted in each neck pretty tight , and projecting a little without the neck , that the neck of one may not touch the inside of another when put together , for that would ...
... legs . To fix the glasses on a spindle , a cork is first to be fitted in each neck pretty tight , and projecting a little without the neck , that the neck of one may not touch the inside of another when put together , for that would ...
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... legs of the performer . The harp was the favorite musical instrument of the Britons and other northern nations in the middle ages ; as is evident from their laws , and various passages in their history . By the laws of Wales , a harp ...
... legs of the performer . The harp was the favorite musical instrument of the Britons and other northern nations in the middle ages ; as is evident from their laws , and various passages in their history . By the laws of Wales , a harp ...
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... legs farther back than he ought ; and when the top of his tail is not in a perpendicular line to the tip of his hocks , as it always is in horses whose haunches are of a just length . Some horses , though they have too long haunches ...
... legs farther back than he ought ; and when the top of his tail is not in a perpendicular line to the tip of his hocks , as it always is in horses whose haunches are of a just length . Some horses , though they have too long haunches ...
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Página 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Página 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Página 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Página 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.