Russell's Magazine, Volume 5Paul Hamilton Payne Walker, Evans & Company, 1859 - Literature, Modern |
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... once to the conclusion , that these mountains , are the remains of vast volcanos ; and this conclu- sion is sustained , when the moun- tains are found to consist of prodi- gous layers of scoriæ , pumice stone , and their detritus ...
... once to the conclusion , that these mountains , are the remains of vast volcanos ; and this conclu- sion is sustained , when the moun- tains are found to consist of prodi- gous layers of scoriæ , pumice stone , and their detritus ...
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... once have fully equalled that of its lava currents ; but the nature of these conglomer- ates exposed them to more speedy destruction . They still exist , how- ever , in immense quantities , in turn resting upon , supporting and enve ...
... once have fully equalled that of its lava currents ; but the nature of these conglomer- ates exposed them to more speedy destruction . They still exist , how- ever , in immense quantities , in turn resting upon , supporting and enve ...
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... once filled is to be remarked , that those trees these valleys , have- disappeared . which grow on the volcanic , are A wintry flood undermines and much larger and more productive detaches a prism of basalt from one than those on the ...
... once filled is to be remarked , that those trees these valleys , have- disappeared . which grow on the volcanic , are A wintry flood undermines and much larger and more productive detaches a prism of basalt from one than those on the ...
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... once , a habit he is much addicted to , and very unbecoming in so young a man ! It is certainly , too , very kind of him to give up his comfortable quarters to the Short- ridges , in their distress , particularly as I know he despises ...
... once , a habit he is much addicted to , and very unbecoming in so young a man ! It is certainly , too , very kind of him to give up his comfortable quarters to the Short- ridges , in their distress , particularly as I know he despises ...
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... once began to supply this omission by borrowing from her half a dozen books on the subject . In two or three days he re - appeared , armed with a huge bunch of wild flowers and plants , and professed to have mastered the technicalities ...
... once began to supply this omission by borrowing from her half a dozen books on the subject . In two or three days he re - appeared , armed with a huge bunch of wild flowers and plants , and professed to have mastered the technicalities ...
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Page 180 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 180 - Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not...
Page 94 - Telassar: in this pleasant soil His far more pleasant garden God ordained; Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold...
Page 92 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Page 96 - That all things which we see or work with in this Earth, especially we ourselves and all persons, are as a kind of vesture or sensuous Appearance : that under all there lies, as the essence of them, what he calls the ' Divine Idea of the World ;' this is the Reality which ' lies at the bottom of all Appearance.
Page 92 - The blue Bared its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile...
Page 548 - Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And...
Page 418 - In poetry, in which every line, every phrase, may pass the ordeal of deliberation and deliberate choice, it is possible, and barely possible, to attain that ultimatum which I have ventured to propose as the infallible test of a blameless style : namely, its untranslatableness in words of the same language, without injury to the meaning.
Page 92 - Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies : The ^Ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 545 - Clear thro' the open casement of the Hall, Singing ; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what kind of bird it is That sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture of the plumage and the form ; So the sweet voice of Enid moved Geraint...