The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 17Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 387
... less compressed than that of the herring , being thicker and rounder : the nose is shorter in proportion , and turns up ; the under jaw is shorter . The back is more elevated ; the belly less sharp . The dorsal fin of the pilchard is ...
... less compressed than that of the herring , being thicker and rounder : the nose is shorter in proportion , and turns up ; the under jaw is shorter . The back is more elevated ; the belly less sharp . The dorsal fin of the pilchard is ...
Page 404
... less honored in his own country than elsewhere ; for at Thebes he was often said to be vanquished , in the musical and poetical contests , by candidates of inferior merit . Indeed at that period little fame in these accomplishments was ...
... less honored in his own country than elsewhere ; for at Thebes he was often said to be vanquished , in the musical and poetical contests , by candidates of inferior merit . Indeed at that period little fame in these accomplishments was ...
Page 408
... less sufficient . The bodies of the pinguin tribe , ' says our author , are commonly so well and closely covered with feathers that no wet can penetrate ; and , as they are in general excessively fat , these circumstances united secure ...
... less sufficient . The bodies of the pinguin tribe , ' says our author , are commonly so well and closely covered with feathers that no wet can penetrate ; and , as they are in general excessively fat , these circumstances united secure ...
Page 421
... less and proceeding on to those that are larger ; the first being pointed , the rest are formed like spoons , increasing in diameter from one to six or eight inches ; they are fitted into the extremities of each other . If small , these ...
... less and proceeding on to those that are larger ; the first being pointed , the rest are formed like spoons , increasing in diameter from one to six or eight inches ; they are fitted into the extremities of each other . If small , these ...
Page 424
... less so in ether . Concentrated sulphuric acid gave it a fine scarlet color . The alcoholic solution after some days deposited crystals ; which were purified by repeated crystallisation in alcohol and ether . They then formed colorless ...
... less so in ether . Concentrated sulphuric acid gave it a fine scarlet color . The alcoholic solution after some days deposited crystals ; which were purified by repeated crystallisation in alcohol and ether . They then formed colorless ...
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Page 570 - We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble.
Page 394 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 479 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 570 - ... with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and...
Page 488 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Page 571 - But, passing over this topic, we would observe, that the complaint against poetry as abounding in illusion and deception, is in the main groundless. In many poems there is more of truth than in many histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of thought, and throw new light on the mysteries of our being.
Page 679 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture as that in which he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Page 495 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Page 743 - Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Page 570 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.