Five Occasional Lectures: Delivered in MontrealRivington's, 1859 - 118 sider |
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Side 37
... heard a common dinner - plate ring , and wrote a tract on sound . While Galileo studied medicine in the University of Pisa , the regular oscillation of a lamp , suspended from the roof of the Cathedral , attracted his observation , and ...
... heard a common dinner - plate ring , and wrote a tract on sound . While Galileo studied medicine in the University of Pisa , the regular oscillation of a lamp , suspended from the roof of the Cathedral , attracted his observation , and ...
Side 38
... heard of just now , who had been thirty years learning to make a bust in ten days . " The long morning of life ( again observes Mr. Willmott ) is spent in making the weapons and armour which manhood and age are to polish and to improve ...
... heard of just now , who had been thirty years learning to make a bust in ten days . " The long morning of life ( again observes Mr. Willmott ) is spent in making the weapons and armour which manhood and age are to polish and to improve ...
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... heard of , but none studied . And having enlarged so much upon the pleasure as well as the advantages of studying the best histories and biographies of former times , I will now conclude with a few of the remarks made by the poet , in ...
... heard of , but none studied . And having enlarged so much upon the pleasure as well as the advantages of studying the best histories and biographies of former times , I will now conclude with a few of the remarks made by the poet , in ...
Side 52
... , what is termed , a natural good Taste , which will manifest itself at all times . But this is not the case with the many . In the same way , we have heard of instances of persons who seem almost to have been born Mathematicians , 52.
... , what is termed , a natural good Taste , which will manifest itself at all times . But this is not the case with the many . In the same way , we have heard of instances of persons who seem almost to have been born Mathematicians , 52.
Side 55
... heard often to be fitly appreciated , are the objects of their admiration . These concerts , though all classes are present , are for the most part attended by the neighbouring trades- people and their families , who not long since ...
... heard often to be fitly appreciated , are the objects of their admiration . These concerts , though all classes are present , are for the most part attended by the neighbouring trades- people and their families , who not long since ...
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Side 94 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Side 109 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Side 75 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Side 78 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Side 68 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Side 78 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him! — He is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Side 81 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man...
Side 65 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Side 81 - The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, — The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost ! "This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark ; Yet, think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark ! No ! it shall live again, and shine In bliss unknown to beams of thine, By Him recall'd to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And took the sting from Death...
Side 96 - TREAD softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll — Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's; one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate.