| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...this goodly frame, the earth, a steril promontory, and this brave o'er-hanging firmament, the air, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours;" whom "man delighted not, nor woman neither;" he who talked with the grave-diggers, and moralised on... | |
| 1818 - 784 pages
...this goodly frame, the earth, a steril promontory, and this brave o'er-hanging firmament, the air, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours;'' whom "man delighted not, nor woman neither;" he who talked with the grave-diggers, and moralised on... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
..." this goodly frame, the earth, a steril promontory, and this brave o'erhanging firmament, the air, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours ;" -whom " man delighted not, nor woman neither ;" he who talked with the gravediggers, and moralized... | |
| Charles Lloyd - 1819 - 374 pages
...and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging, this majestical roof, look you, fretted with golden fires, why, it appears no other thing to me than... | |
| William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...as the Manicbean school. In the bauds of the latter gentlemen, " this goodly frame the earth seems a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy...firmament, this, majestical roof fretted with golden fire, appears no other thing than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours," and man is handled with... | |
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| 1820 - 474 pages
...this goodly frame, the earth, a sterile promontory, and this brave o'erhanging firmament, the air, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours;" whom " man delighted not, nor woman neither ;" he who talked with the grave-diggers, and moralized... | |
| 1829 - 762 pages
...dew-drop, or the glowing rainbow ; he regards it only in the damp fog, and the misty cloud. Even " this most excellent canopy the air — this brave...firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fires, appears to him ni other than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." Far be it from us... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 pages
...concerns of humanity are forgotten when the mind of the astronomer revels in the magnificence of " this most excellent canopy, the air; this brave o'erhanging...— this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire ;" when he beholds worlds on worlds of diversified forms, rolling in fields of immeajmrable space:... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...concerns of humanity are forgotten when the mind of the astronomer revels in the magnificence of " this most excellent canopy, the air ; this brave o'erhanging...— this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire ;" when lie beholds worlds on worlds of diversified forms, rolling in fields of immeasurable space... | |
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