The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical NotesJohn W. Butler, and Bonsal & Niles, 1804 - 344 σελίδες |
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acquire action Additional Note animalcules anthers appear attraction Beauty become blood bodies Botanic Garden CANTO change of termination chemical chemical affinity coated jar colours combined conductor consists earth eggs elec electric atmospheres electrised embryon excited exertion existence explosion eyes female fibres flowers fluid Galvanic pile glass greater heat and light Hence hermaphrodite ideas insects irritation kinds lacteals language larva larynx Latin language less Linneus lips magnetic ethers metallic microscopic animals motions nonconductors nouns nouns substantive novelty o'er organs of sense oxygen pain particles pass perpetual pleasure polypus possess probably produced progeny quadrupeds quantity repel repetition repulsion resinous electric ether resinous ether round scrofula Sect semisonant sensation sensorial power sensorium sexual sexual reproduction sibilant sounds stimulus surface termed tion tricity vegetable verb vitreous and resinous vitreous electric ether vitreous ether vitreous or resinous viviparous volition volvox Vorticella vowels whence wings word young zinc Zoonomia
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Σελίδα 181 - 1. 309. Mr. Locke defines wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To Which Mr. Addison adds, that these must occasion surprise as well as delight; Spectator, Vol. I. No. LXII. See Note on Canto
Σελίδα 30 - Lights into life the fibre-woven frame.— Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth ; From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. 250 " In earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Life's subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove
Σελίδα 28 - Then, whilst the sea, at their coeval birth, Surge over surge, involved the shoreless earth ; Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves, Organic Life began beneath the waves. " First HEAT, from chemic dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings ; With strong REPULSION parts the exploding mass, Melts into lymph, or kindles into gas.
Σελίδα 139 - blown on the edge of the ribbon, it gave an agreeable tone, as it vibrated between the wooden sides, much like a human voice. This head pronounced the p, b, m, and the vowel a, with so great nicety as to deceive all who heard it unseen, when it pronounced the words
Σελίδα 5 - Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning ; its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly to the imagination, the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature, in the. order, as the author believes, in which the progressive course of time
Σελίδα 122 - of rising and descending surface, or in the forms of some antique vases, or in other works of the pencil or the chisel, we feel a general glow of delight, which seems to influence all our senses ; and if the object be not too large, we experience an attraction to embrace it with our arms, and to salute it with our lips,
Σελίδα 159 - the tribes above ; With monstrous gape, sepulchral whales devour Shoals at a gulp, a million in an hour. —Air, earth, and ocean, to astonish'd day, One scene of blood, one mighty tomb display ! From Hunger's arm the shafts of Death are hurl'd, And one great Slaughter-house the warring world
Σελίδα 13 - and tittering, as they pass, View their fair features in the walls of glass ; Leave with impatient step the circling bourn, And hear behind the closing rocks return. Here, high in air, unconscious of the storm, Thy temple, NATURE, rears it's mystic form ; From earth to heav'n, unwrought by mortal toil. Towers the vast fabric on the
Σελίδα 29 - ATTRACTION next, as earth or air subsides, The ponderous atoms from the light divides, Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres and lengthens into lines. Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Cords grapple cords, and webs with webs unite ; And quick CONTRACTION with ethereal flame
Σελίδα 84 - A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose, as the very thick shield-like horny skin on the