The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, כרך 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד 12
... land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by any thing but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable ex- panse of ...
... land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by any thing but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable ex- panse of ...
עמוד 17
and , in some of the hot climates , the land absolutely swarms with them . VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES . PAPYRUS . THE first manufactured paper of which we have any record , is the celebrated papyrus made of a species of reed growing in Egypt ...
and , in some of the hot climates , the land absolutely swarms with them . VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES . PAPYRUS . THE first manufactured paper of which we have any record , is the celebrated papyrus made of a species of reed growing in Egypt ...
עמוד 35
... reached his burning prime ; Oh ; must this glimpse of beauty be the last ! " Let me not perish while o'er land and sea , With silent steps the Lord of light moves on- Not while the murmur of the mountain bee Greets my Poetry . 35 336.
... reached his burning prime ; Oh ; must this glimpse of beauty be the last ! " Let me not perish while o'er land and sea , With silent steps the Lord of light moves on- Not while the murmur of the mountain bee Greets my Poetry . 35 336.
עמוד 46
... land , All shun , none aid you , and few understand . I felt As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building- yard , while my boat was in progress , I have often loi- tered unknown near the idle groups of strangers , gather ...
... land , All shun , none aid you , and few understand . I felt As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building- yard , while my boat was in progress , I have often loi- tered unknown near the idle groups of strangers , gather ...
עמוד 62
... land , they enclose in the hollow trunks of the trees , where in the course of ages , they become quite dry and sapless , without actually rotting , and form in that man- ner a description of mummy without the help of embalm- P H. ment ...
... land , they enclose in the hollow trunks of the trees , where in the course of ages , they become quite dry and sapless , without actually rotting , and form in that man- ner a description of mummy without the help of embalm- P H. ment ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
AGAMI HERON animal appearance banks beauty belted kingfisher birds body Calabria called cataract cavern coast colour covered crater dark deep delightful distance earth earthquake feet flowers Flustra frequently GEORGE CROLY GRANDE CHARTREUSE ground GUACHARO habits heaven height hills hour houses hundred inches INDIAN IDOL inhabitants island king land leaves length light living manner ment mercury metal miles mind MONTHLY REPOSITORY moon motion MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain mouth Naples natives nature nearly nest never night o'er observed ocean ornaments Paradise Lost passed plain plants present puma rise river rock ROCK SAMPHIRE rocking stone says scene seen shore side Sierra Leone sometimes Soosoo species spring stone stream surface surrounded temple thing thou tide tide-wave Timbuctoo tion torrent travellers trees vegetable vessel waves whole wind wood young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
עמוד 407 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
עמוד 34 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
עמוד 333 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
עמוד 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
עמוד 72 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
עמוד 407 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
עמוד 370 - No endless night, yet not eternal day; The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay: Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
עמוד 333 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
עמוד 334 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.