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Thalaba the Destroyer (1); A Rhythmical Romance
Thalaba the Destroyer A Rhythmical Romance - 1 Author:Robert Southey Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: T.B. Wait, and Charles Williams Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES TO BOOK VII. Within its door the lizard's track it left, Cfc. -- P. 42. The dust which overspreads these beds of sand is so fine, that the lightest animal, the smallest insect, leaves there as on snow, the vestiges of its track. The varieties of these impressions produce a pleasing effect, in spots where the saddened soul expects to meet with nothing but symptoms of the proscriptions of nature. -- It is impossible to set any thing more beautiful than the traces of the passage of a species of very small lizards, extremely common in these deserts. The extremity of their tail forms regular sinuosities, in the middle of two rows of delineations, also regularly imprinted by their four feet, with their five slender toes. These traces are multiplied and interwoven near the subterranean retreats of these little animals, and present a singular assemblage which is not void of beauty. -- Sonnini. In the world's foundations, tSfc. -- P. 44. These lines are feebly adaptw! from a passage in Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Haec autem dicta vellem de genuinis et majoribus terra: montibus; non gralos Baccbi colics hie intel- ligimus, aut amoeuos illos munticulos, qui viridi herba et vicino fonte et arboribus, vim acstivi solis repellunt: hisce non deest sua qualiscunque ele- gantia et jucunditas. bed longe aliud hie respici- mus, nempe longseva ilia, tristia et squalentia corpora, telluris pondera, quse duro capite rigent inte...« less