Dial of the Seasons: Or A Portraiture of Nature ...Carey & Hart, 1845 - 217 ページ Only edition of this essay that covers a broad range of subjects, including the sun's declination, imaginary flight over the globe, bird migrations, the effects of temperature on diseases, slavery, race and genealogy. |
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ages American amid ancient animal antiquity Arctic Arctic ocean arts Asia Atlantic beautiful beneath birds bright broad Caucasian race Chaldea China civilization climates clouds cold contemplate dark degree desert destiny distance diurnal motion earth empires Equator eternal Europe existence extent fertile forest furthest ginseng glory Greece Gulf Stream heat heaven Hemisphere herds hills horizon hour human hundred illustrated imagination immense intellectual islands Italy landscapes language latitudes loves miles Mississippi Missouri Mount Ararat Mount Olympus mountains nations native nature neath North northern Northern Hemisphere notice numbers o'er observe ocean orbit origin parallels passed pauseless Phidias Philadelphia picture plains planet portion prairie present race ravines rivers rolling sand partridges scenery scenes seasons shores solstice South southern species stars summer summits sun's light sunlight sunset sweeping Tartar temperate temperature thousand tions torrid zone tree tropical valleys various vast vegetable verdure vertical waters whole winter yonder zone
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142 ページ - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
60 ページ - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
121 ページ - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
84 ページ - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
150 ページ - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
111 ページ - Steel. Hail, adamantine steel! magnetic lord, King of the prow, the ploughshare, and the sword!
111 ページ - Braves with broad sail the immeasurable sea, Cleaves the dark air, and asks no star but thee. — By thee the ploughshare rends the matted plain, Inhumes in level rows the living grain ; Intrusive forests quit the cultured ground, And Ceres laughs, with golden fillets crown'd. — O'er restless realms when scowling Discord flings Her snakes, and loud the din of battle rings, Expiring Strength and vanquish'd Courage feel Thy arm resistless, adamantine Steel !
161 ページ - The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds has come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in the land ; The fig-tree putteth forth her green leaves, And the vines with the tender grape perfume the air.
87 ページ - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
174 ページ - The universal cause Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.