Russell's Magazine, Volume 5Paul Hamilton Payne Walker, Evans & Company, 1859 - Literature, Modern |
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... causes of rock formations . Mr. Scrope commenced his inves- tigations with the idea that the only true method of geological inquiry was to examine the laws of nature actually in force upon the surface of the globe and to apply the de ...
... causes of rock formations . Mr. Scrope commenced his inves- tigations with the idea that the only true method of geological inquiry was to examine the laws of nature actually in force upon the surface of the globe and to apply the de ...
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... cause , and sup- poses that the process of formation has been going on from the first appearance of the land above the sea . That the causes principally at work are rain , frost and other me- teoric agents , but especially the direct ...
... cause , and sup- poses that the process of formation has been going on from the first appearance of the land above the sea . That the causes principally at work are rain , frost and other me- teoric agents , but especially the direct ...
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... caused the currents to increase in width , as much as in length ; and , in these situations , the same bed , or series of beds , often extends over a surface of many square miles , forming a succession of vast plateaux with a slight ...
... caused the currents to increase in width , as much as in length ; and , in these situations , the same bed , or series of beds , often extends over a surface of many square miles , forming a succession of vast plateaux with a slight ...
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... causes brought many of the gentlemen to head - quarters , she VOL . V. 2 made a point of having Mrs. Short- ridge at hand to countenance and sustain her ; and in return she would often mount her horse early and canter into Elvas ...
... causes brought many of the gentlemen to head - quarters , she VOL . V. 2 made a point of having Mrs. Short- ridge at hand to countenance and sustain her ; and in return she would often mount her horse early and canter into Elvas ...
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... causes which combined to produce the singular phenomenon we shall have to narrate of a whole people passing from abject slavery into constitutional liberty by processes so gradual and from causes so re- condite as hardly to be perceived ...
... causes which combined to produce the singular phenomenon we shall have to narrate of a whole people passing from abject slavery into constitutional liberty by processes so gradual and from causes so re- condite as hardly to be perceived ...
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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...