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... intended to mark the vast extent of the country which Ajax ( whose name has the same derivation , ) represents ; just as Awdwn and Audavam in Homer allude to China , from the abundance of boats there , called doas , or dows ; and as ...
... intended to mark the vast extent of the country which Ajax ( whose name has the same derivation , ) represents ; just as Awdwn and Audavam in Homer allude to China , from the abundance of boats there , called doas , or dows ; and as ...
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... intended also to convey a description of the original natives of America : In the follow- ing lines for instance , ( 278 ) , νεηνιη ανδρι εοικως Πρωτον υπήνητη οταν χαριεςατος ηβη , by xae , and by 6 , there appears to be an allusion to ...
... intended also to convey a description of the original natives of America : In the follow- ing lines for instance , ( 278 ) , νεηνιη ανδρι εοικως Πρωτον υπήνητη οταν χαριεςατος ηβη , by xae , and by 6 , there appears to be an allusion to ...
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... intended to assign that cause ? On this point I strongly incline to think that he really did intend to impute it to the eating of the Peccary , or Mexican hog ; and the following circumstances 1 are not slight in confirmation of it , as ...
... intended to assign that cause ? On this point I strongly incline to think that he really did intend to impute it to the eating of the Peccary , or Mexican hog ; and the following circumstances 1 are not slight in confirmation of it , as ...
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... the lines just cited he intended to refer to this passage by Cape Horn , as well from the other circumstances above noticed , as , more especially , from the con . cluding words , which mention both passages , ω παιδι 58.
... the lines just cited he intended to refer to this passage by Cape Horn , as well from the other circumstances above noticed , as , more especially , from the con . cluding words , which mention both passages , ω παιδι 58.
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... intended , under the various utensils he mentions , to suggest the recollection of those islands , and of their position . Thus axuolεrov and axuwv seem to relate to the island of Borneo , situate just under the equator , implied in ...
... intended , under the various utensils he mentions , to suggest the recollection of those islands , and of their position . Thus axuolεrov and axuwv seem to relate to the island of Borneo , situate just under the equator , implied in ...
Common terms and phrases
Æneid ague alluded allusion alum Amazon ancient apprehend atque bark-tree Bay of Honduras brothers called Cape Cape Horn Cape Maisy China Circe Comus contained Cuba cure Diemen's Land disease drawn in fig enigma expression fable fever figure following lines Gemini gin-seng gum lac Hæc hand head History of Drugs Homer Honduras Iliad implied Indies Island of Cuba Isle of Cuba Isthmus of Darien Jardin Lady Mamore mention moon mummies noticed oblique observed Odyssey particular passage Pegu perhaps Peru Peruvian bark pestilence plague of Athens poem poet prototype reader recollected reference Reine remarkable remedy represented resemblance river Amazon river Mamore seems shape shepherd shew side song South America Spir Spirit stagnant thou tion tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land virgin volcanoes West India Gulf word Zodiac δε εκ εν ες μεν μοι τε
Popular passages
Page 118 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 268 - If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians : for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Page 83 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 140 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i
Page 131 - Was rife, and perfect in my listening ear; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 192 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute.
Page 157 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 164 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...
Page 180 - With that same vaunted name, virginity. Beauty is nature's coin ; must not be hoarded, But must be current...
Page 178 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...