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Pagina 142 - fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head, How begot, how nourished ? Reply, reply. Is it engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle, where it lies? Let us all ring fancy's knell; 111 begin
Pagina 150 - sadness" and "attention," "thoughtfulness" and "reflection;" and between "mirth," and "thoughtlessness," and "inattention." Thus, in " Midsummer Night's Dream," IV., i.— " Then, my queen, in silence sad, Trip we after the night's shade.
Pagina 145 - but now This house, these servants, and this same myself, Are yours." Portia contrasts the immediate past with the present time. To the former period she refers
Pagina 179 - their wont is to tie their baby children by the foot with a string, to save them from rolling into the water. They feed their horses and their other beasts upon numerous animals, among which were Elephas primigenius Rhinoceros tichorrhinus, Bos primigenius, Cervus tarandus, Equus fossilis, Lepus diluvianus, Ursus spelseus, Hyaena
Pagina 179 - Platforms supported upon tall pilesj stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom which
Pagina 28 - attributes who placed them there, Fulfil the purpose, and appear design'd, Proofs of the wisdom of the all-seeing mind, 'Tis plain the creature, whom he chose to invest With kingship and dominion o'er the rest, Received
Pagina 104 - that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary, ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving, and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that may be profitable." Here, then, Darwin compares instinct to habit, and argues concerning it as he would argue concerning habit.
Pagina 175 - Although the accompanying shells are of living species, I believe the antiquity of the Abbeville and Amiens flint instruments to be great indeed, if compared to the times of history or tradition." " I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin, but I could detetct nothing in the structure of its several parts
Pagina 146 - win At that sport, and stake down. But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel ? What, and My old Venetian friend, Salerio ?
Pagina 180 - and when a part of the mountain which hemmed in the water suddenly gave way, the dead bodies were carried downwards by the flood into the crevices and hollows of the country below. The bones fish, which abound in the lake to such a degree that a man