This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...frames a piece of art, Fine are her strokes, and small in every part. No labour can she boast more wonderful Than to endow an atom with a soul; To animate her little beauteous fly, And clothe it in her gaudiest drapery.--Yalden. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...frames a piece of art, Fine are her strokes, and small in every part. No labour can she boast more wonderful Than to endow an atom with a soul; To animate her little beauteous fly, And clothe it in her gaudiest drapery.--Yalden. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds..Cowper. All natural objects have An echo in the heart. This flesh doth thrill, And has connexion, by some unseen chain, With its original source and kindred substance; The mighty forest, the proud tides of ocean, Sky cleaving hills, and in the vast air, The starry constellations; and the sun, Parent of life exhaustless--these maintain With the mysterious mind and breathing mould A co-existence and community.--Hunt. There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.--Byron. Live not the stars and mountains? are the waves Without a spirit? are the" dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears? No, no: --they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this cloy and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore..Byron.. Nature--calmness of. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffiis'd In glassy breath, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.--Thompson. Nature--proclaims God?- goodness. In every stream his bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth; In every breeze his Spirit blows, --The breath of life and health. H...
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Add this copy of Thesaurus Poeticus, Or Poetical Treasury of the to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1826 by G.C. Morgan, W.B. Gilley, etc.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. First edition. Pink papercovered boards, with printed green spine label. Owner's name twice, small contemporary bookstore label (Daniels and Smith's Cheap Book Store, Philadelphia) dampstain to the edges of the boards and a few pages, crack on front board, still a pleasing and handsome, about very good copy.
