Category: Poetry
Exordium--The Palace of Fantasy--Sir Herald described--His Address to the crowd assembled by proclamation--Prepares to lead them to the interior of the building--Its outward appearance--On their entry are first conducted by Sir Page to be suitably attired--A description of his...
Exordium--The Palace of Fantasy--Sir Herald described--His Address to the crowd assembled by proclamation--Prepares to lead them to the interior of the building--Its outward app...
2. CANTO I.O child of earth, who treads this mortal life With weary steps, and turmoil hard to bear, Forego, if e’er ye can, your care, and strife, The sigh oppressive, and the trickling t...
3. CANTO II.Four ways leading to Nature, Literature, Art, and Science--The Entrance Porch of Nature Portrayed--Alpine Scenery--Polar Regions--The Torrent--The Atlantic Ocean--A Ship tossed...
4. CANTO II.Four ways branched forth from out yon sylvan vale, Each entrance varied, formed t’ arrest the eye Of those, the explorers of that thymy dale, Who thirsted for, and did for knowl...
5. CANTO III.The Porch of Art--Entrance thereto--A Sight of the Pyramids--Statues at Memphis--Pompey’s Pillar--The Hanging Gardens of Babylon--Pompeii--Palmyra--The Temple of the Sun--Wall o...
6. CANTO III.To this great end he did them straightway lead To yon fair other entrance, “Art” beknown, Adjoining that of Nature; found indeed A wild-formed way that we have rudely shown, A f...
7. CANTO IV.8. CANTO IV.Anon he led the trooping crowd, right glad His steps to follow on discovery bent, For he had soothed their drooping spirits sad, As with enchanter’s wand, where’er they went; Th...
9. CANTO V.The Bard leads the way to the Entrance Porch of Science--Discourses by the way--The Porch, and its Description--The Entrance and Prospect--Sunrise--The Eagle, Falcon, and Vultur...
10. CANTO V.Marshalling the way, by tract untrod before, Discoursing mainly on fair science theme, Geology, and geometric lore, Attraction’s laws, and rainbow optic’s beam, Prismatic hues t...
11. CANTO VI.A Recapitulation of the Wonders Shown--The Proper Use of Knowledge enforced--The Infinite Value of Man’s Soul and Highest Destiny--An Inducement the Happiness of the Blest--The...
12. CANTO VI.“Thus have I pictured what my art could show; Some fair illusions hidden brought to light: The depth of earth, the bowell’d earth below, Dark as the gloomy reign of Pluto’s nigh...
13. Part I. contains, Carbon a Compound Body made by Plants, in quantitiesTheir Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Arti...
14. Part II.--Tables showing the Interest on Exchequer Bills at15. Part III.--Tables for Ascertaining the Value of every descriptionAnd the various Purposes to which they may be usefully Applied: including also a particular Account of the routine required for Effecting a Policy; and of the different systems...
16. PART I.--(JUST PUBLISHED) ON CORAL FORMATIONS.17. PART II.--ON THE VOLCANIC ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC AND18. PART III.--ON THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AMERICA.Comprising highly-finished representations of the most novel and interesting objects in Natural History, collected during the voyage of the Beagle, with descriptive Letterpress,...