An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait: On the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the Years 1802-3-4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and J.C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805 - Aboriginal Australians - 239 pages |
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Page 31
... afford : in the direction of the setting sun , the Hea- vens are seen glowing with orange and purple , blended into the greatest va- riety of tints , and melting impercep- tibly 2 tibly into the pure ether of light ceru- lean blue ( 31 )
... afford : in the direction of the setting sun , the Hea- vens are seen glowing with orange and purple , blended into the greatest va- riety of tints , and melting impercep- tibly 2 tibly into the pure ether of light ceru- lean blue ( 31 )
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... light ceru- lean blue ; in which , the first stars of evening shine with the most brilliant silvery lustre ; but , -Who can paint Like Nature ? Can Imagination boast , Amidst its gay creation , hues like her's : Or , can it mix them ...
... light ceru- lean blue ; in which , the first stars of evening shine with the most brilliant silvery lustre ; but , -Who can paint Like Nature ? Can Imagination boast , Amidst its gay creation , hues like her's : Or , can it mix them ...
Page 45
... houses are commonly two stories high , indepen- dent of the ground - floors , which are occupied as shops or cellars ; they are dirty , hot , and inconvenient ; the stair- cases cases are perpendicular , and without any light ; and ( 45 )
... houses are commonly two stories high , indepen- dent of the ground - floors , which are occupied as shops or cellars ; they are dirty , hot , and inconvenient ; the stair- cases cases are perpendicular , and without any light ; and ( 45 )
Page 46
... light ; and in the arrangement of the rooms , no regard is paid , either to free circulation of air , or to the beauty of prospect . The furniture of the houses , though costly , disgusts the eye used to elegant plainness , by its ...
... light ; and in the arrangement of the rooms , no regard is paid , either to free circulation of air , or to the beauty of prospect . The furniture of the houses , though costly , disgusts the eye used to elegant plainness , by its ...
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... light as air . " The admission to the nunneries is expensive ; and I have heard a fond mother regret her want of fortune , only because it pre- vented her dedicating some of her be- loved daughters to God . The clergy possess immense ...
... light as air . " The admission to the nunneries is expensive ; and I have heard a fond mother regret her want of fortune , only because it pre- vented her dedicating some of her be- loved daughters to God . The clergy possess immense ...
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Page 50 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 120 - Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form! Rocks, waves, and winds, the shattered bark delay; Thy heart is sad, thy home is far away.
Page 120 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Page 78 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 190 - I beheld a second Rome, rising from a coalition of banditti. I beheld it giving laws to the world, and superlative in arms and in. arts, looking down with proud superiority upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere ; thus running over the airy visions of empire, wealth, and glory, I wandered amidst the delusions of imagination.
Page 79 - Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge The glowworm lights his gem ; and through the dark A moving radiance twinkles.
Page 40 - The Thunder holds his black tremendous throne ; From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolved, the whole precipitated mass Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.
Page 119 - Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.
Page 119 - Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles. On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on...
Page 186 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.