The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at ExeterLongmans, Green, 1870 - Počet stran: 152 |
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Strana 68 - In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done? Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.
Strana 68 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Strana 28 - Quodcunque retro est, efficiet neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
Strana 67 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Strana 49 - Israel's scatter'd race ; For, taking root, it there remains In solitary grace : It cannot quit its place of birth, It will not live in other earth. But we must wander witheringly, In other lands to die; And where our fathers...
Strana 108 - is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation.
Strana 117 - Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches in a field where Geometry, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, like sunset tints or the colours of the dying dolphin, "the last still loveliest...
Strana 120 - I should rejoice to see mathematics taught with that life and animation which the presence and example of her young and buoyant sister could not fail to impart, short roads preferred to long ones, Euclid honorably shelved or buried "deeper than did ever plummet sound...
Strana 139 - intellectualised these forms of the sensibility " (Meiklejohn's Translation of the " Critick," p. 198) : and lest the import of this assertion should be mistaken, he explicitly tells us that " Space and Time are not merely forms of sensuous intuition, but intuitions themselves" (Meiklejohn's Trans., p. 98): that is, sensuous intuitions, as he has been just before asserting that all human intuitions must be. It is precisely on this distinction of pure sensibility and pure thought that Kant founds...