| Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 474 sider
...myriads depart which may have covered the vegetation like the aphides, or darkened the air like locusts. In almost every season there are some species which...a catalogue of eight thousand British insects and arachnidas, Mr. Kirby found that these two divisions were nearly a counterpoise to each other, the... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 538 sider
...crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till the signal given, Behold a wonder ; they bat now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs." (441.) Fungi have been very variously distributed, and the subordinate groups very variously named... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 sider
...balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were slraiten'd; till, the signal given. Behold a wonder : They, but...Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 sider
...suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd;...Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves,... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 sider
...suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd;...Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race qui doit se tenir incontinent à Pancloemonium... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 584 sider
...crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. * Ktrby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 218. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates.... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 518 sider
...Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they, but now who seem'd In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves,... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straitcn'd; dames before ; Oft listening how the hounds and hom Cheerly rouse the slumbering in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 sider
...Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd, and were straiten'd ; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves Whose... | |
| James Harris - 1841 - 618 sider
...quantity is enlarged, we call the motion augmentation ; when it is lessened, we call it diminution.0 Behold a wonder : they, but now who seem'd In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless. Par. Lost, i. 777. Here we behold diminution. Parva mctu primo ;... | |
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