Putnam's Monthly, Volume 5G.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 |
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... never ventured to do , the dark waters had closed upon him . They saw the fierce flood rush up in wild haste ; they saw the white foam sink down into the dark , gloomy gulf ; they heard the thunder- ing roar and the hideous hissing ...
... never ventured to do , the dark waters had closed upon him . They saw the fierce flood rush up in wild haste ; they saw the white foam sink down into the dark , gloomy gulf ; they heard the thunder- ing roar and the hideous hissing ...
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... never resting day and night , so the great ocean also knows no leisure , no repose . It is not merely , however , that the weight of the agitated atmosphere presses upon the surface of the vast ocean , and moves it now with the gen- tle ...
... never resting day and night , so the great ocean also knows no leisure , no repose . It is not merely , however , that the weight of the agitated atmosphere presses upon the surface of the vast ocean , and moves it now with the gen- tle ...
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... never resting , never ending , is the effect of the sun and the warmth it generates . Like all bodies , water also contracts , and consequently grows heavier as the temperature sinks ; but only to a certain point , about three de- gress ...
... never resting , never ending , is the effect of the sun and the warmth it generates . Like all bodies , water also contracts , and consequently grows heavier as the temperature sinks ; but only to a certain point , about three de- gress ...
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... never seen by human eye , their young ones bred in lands unknown to man . Islands are formed , and moun- tains raised , by the mere dung of gene- rations of smaller birds . And yet nature is here also greatest in her smallest cre ...
... never seen by human eye , their young ones bred in lands unknown to man . Islands are formed , and moun- tains raised , by the mere dung of gene- rations of smaller birds . And yet nature is here also greatest in her smallest cre ...
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... never - ceasing struggle with the mighty waves of the sea . A struggle it is , for , strangely enough , they never build in turbid , never in still waters ; their home is amid the most violent breakers , and living force , though so ...
... never - ceasing struggle with the mighty waves of the sea . A struggle it is , for , strangely enough , they never build in turbid , never in still waters ; their home is amid the most violent breakers , and living force , though so ...
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Page 345 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
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Page 280 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 566 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 576 - White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink, Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee. Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Brood, kind creature; you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee, chee,...
Page 297 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 576 - Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings : " Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Brood, kind creature, you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee, chee, chee!
Page 567 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Page 283 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 283 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...