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... periods have been entertained with respect to comets . Many of them are idle and puerile , and the best are not worthy of the minds in which they were conceived ; none of them have connected these wandering bodies with the general ...
... periods have been entertained with respect to comets . Many of them are idle and puerile , and the best are not worthy of the minds in which they were conceived ; none of them have connected these wandering bodies with the general ...
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... period assigned for the return of the comet of 1769 is no less than 2,100 years ! * In this instance we are to suppose an inhabited globe , hurried with immense velocity in a few weeks through the brightness of the solar regions - then ...
... period assigned for the return of the comet of 1769 is no less than 2,100 years ! * In this instance we are to suppose an inhabited globe , hurried with immense velocity in a few weeks through the brightness of the solar regions - then ...
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similar circumstances , in a far greater degree , and through much longer periods , they must over the whole extent of their surfaces , be equally unfitted for the only purpose , for which we can believe them to have been formed . Or if ...
similar circumstances , in a far greater degree , and through much longer periods , they must over the whole extent of their surfaces , be equally unfitted for the only purpose , for which we can believe them to have been formed . Or if ...
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... period . Nor have the cal- culations , which are so much relied on by the advocates for the periodic returns of these bodies , assigned to any that were observed prior to 1792 , such orbits as would bring them to their perihelion again ...
... period . Nor have the cal- culations , which are so much relied on by the advocates for the periodic returns of these bodies , assigned to any that were observed prior to 1792 , such orbits as would bring them to their perihelion again ...
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... period at which our narrative opens . His father , favoured by the smile of fortune , had in early life amassed immense wealth in India , and was thus enabled to retire at an age when most men in the natural tide of events , are yet ...
... period at which our narrative opens . His father , favoured by the smile of fortune , had in early life amassed immense wealth in India , and was thus enabled to retire at an age when most men in the natural tide of events , are yet ...
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Page 229 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 297 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me, — But let us part fair foes ; I do believe, Though I have found them not, that there may be Words which are things, — hopes which will not deceive, And virtues which are merciful, nor weave Snares for the failing : I would also deem O'er others...
Page 231 - 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.
Page 20 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 229 - Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 229 - To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of Hell, or accompany the choirs of Heaven.
Page 323 - I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such 5 intrepidity and elevation to their character that at times it approaches to sublimity.
Page 231 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in die , Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine , And all, save the spirit of man , is divine ? Tis the clime of the East, 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ?...
Page 231 - Spit, fire ! spout, rain ! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness, I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription ; why then let fall Your horrible pleasure ; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man: — But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles, 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Page 47 - Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose-lip and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly ! With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine— I may not stay.