The European Magazine, and London Review, Volumen72Philological Society of London, 1817 |
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... basalt quarry , extend ing widely over the neighbourhood . The leading features of this whole coast , are the two great promontories of Bengore and Fairhead , which stand at the distance of eight miles from each other . Both founded on ...
... basalt quarry , extend ing widely over the neighbourhood . The leading features of this whole coast , are the two great promontories of Bengore and Fairhead , which stand at the distance of eight miles from each other . Both founded on ...
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... basaltic way , Of clustering columus wedged in dense array , With skill so like , yet so surpassing art With such ... basalt of the Cave - hill and the Gobbins , the red ochre of Cushendall . the pudding - stone of Cushendun , and the ...
... basaltic way , Of clustering columus wedged in dense array , With skill so like , yet so surpassing art With such ... basalt of the Cave - hill and the Gobbins , the red ochre of Cushendall . the pudding - stone of Cushendun , and the ...
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... basalt , varying from a few inches to forty or fifty feet in breadth . That at the grand Causeway is fifteen or ... basaltic co- lumns , projecting into the sea from the middle of the semicircular bay of Port Noffer . The largest of ...
... basalt , varying from a few inches to forty or fifty feet in breadth . That at the grand Causeway is fifteen or ... basaltic co- lumns , projecting into the sea from the middle of the semicircular bay of Port Noffer . The largest of ...
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... basaltic co- lumns , forty - four feet high . A bed of irregular prismatic basalt , fifty - four feet in thickness , succeeds , and forms the basis of a second columnade of longer and more massy columns than the former . Another thin ...
... basaltic co- lumns , forty - four feet high . A bed of irregular prismatic basalt , fifty - four feet in thickness , succeeds , and forms the basis of a second columnade of longer and more massy columns than the former . Another thin ...
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... basaltic walls , called Whyn - Dykes , which intersect the cliffs in different places near the Giant's Causeway , run- ing into the sea , in a direction nearly north - north - west . Those dykes have attracted the attention of ...
... basaltic walls , called Whyn - Dykes , which intersect the cliffs in different places near the Giant's Causeway , run- ing into the sea , in a direction nearly north - north - west . Those dykes have attracted the attention of ...
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Página 72 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Página 32 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Página 152 - She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe...
Página 137 - Not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, they are full of courtesy, and fond of society; more liable in general to err than man, but in general also more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman , whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer.
Página 151 - I stand, and on the torrent's brink beneath Behold the tall pines dwindled as to shrubs In dizziness of distance; when a leap, A stir, a motion, even a breath, would bring My breast upon its rocky bosom's bed To rest for ever — wherefore do I pause?
Página 72 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 137 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer; with man it has often been otherwise.
Página 152 - Pity, and smiles, and tears— which I had not; And tenderness— but that I had for her; Humility— and that I never had. Her faults were mine— her virtues were her own— I loved her, and destroyed her! Witch. With thy hand? Man. Not with my hand, but heart, which broke her heart; It gazed on mine, and withered. I have shed Blood, but not hers— and yet her blood was shed; I saw— and could not stanch it.
Página 324 - ... part of our duration very small of which we can truly call ourselves masters, or which we can spend wholly at our own choice. Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employments; many of our provisions for ease or happiness...
Página 317 - A little skill in criticism would inform us, that shadows and realities ought not to be mixed together in the same piece ; and that the scenes which are designed as the representations of nature, should be filled with resemblances, and not with the things themselves.