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, Volume 20Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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Pagina 2
... common fortitude can always pro- mise for itself , the injury which he does to the object of his amusement is yet very great , as he raises hopes of the most sanguine kind , merely to disappoint them , and diverts her affections , per ...
... common fortitude can always pro- mise for itself , the injury which he does to the object of his amusement is yet very great , as he raises hopes of the most sanguine kind , merely to disappoint them , and diverts her affections , per ...
Pagina 3
... common orpine , or live - long , has a perennial root , composed of many knobbed tubercles , sending up erect , round , succulent stalks , branch- ing half a yard or two feet high , garnished with oblong , plane , serrated , succulent ...
... common orpine , or live - long , has a perennial root , composed of many knobbed tubercles , sending up erect , round , succulent stalks , branch- ing half a yard or two feet high , garnished with oblong , plane , serrated , succulent ...
Pagina 5
... common seeds , such as clover , charlock , & c . , would lie dormant for ages within the earth , well preserved for vegetation whenever they might happen to be thrown to the surface , and exposed to the atmosphere ; so these foreign ...
... common seeds , such as clover , charlock , & c . , would lie dormant for ages within the earth , well preserved for vegetation whenever they might happen to be thrown to the surface , and exposed to the atmosphere ; so these foreign ...
Pagina 17
... common with the former than with the latter substance . It was obtained in exceedingly small quantity from a large portion of pyrites . For the mode of extraction we must refer to his long and elabo- rate papers , translated from the ...
... common with the former than with the latter substance . It was obtained in exceedingly small quantity from a large portion of pyrites . For the mode of extraction we must refer to his long and elabo- rate papers , translated from the ...
Pagina 27
... common water for a cubic inch , the whole water amounted to twenty - seven cubic inches , and that which would fill the space occupied by the air four ounces and one - fifth ; and so large a quantity of interstitial air , he says , was ...
... common water for a cubic inch , the whole water amounted to twenty - seven cubic inches , and that which would fill the space occupied by the air four ounces and one - fifth ; and so large a quantity of interstitial air , he says , was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 167 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Pagina 136 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Pagina 135 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Pagina 135 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, At home a poor scarecrow, at London an asse, If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, Then Lucy is lowsie, whatever befall it. He thinks himself great ; Yet an asse in his state, We allow, by his ears, but with asses to mate. If Lucy is lowsie as some volke miscall it, Then sing lowsie Lucy whatever befall it.
Pagina 409 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Pagina 416 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors ! — for so you are, That -war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires...
Pagina 58 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Pagina 426 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Pagina 136 - ... field, and sometimes among the manufactures of the shop. There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature. Many of the Roman authors were...
Pagina 58 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Strange things I have in head that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.