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... strange flora , so unlike that of the rest of the world , and its odd and mar- vellous animals , an aged , dying island , which the ocean is slowly burying , inch by inch . And a wondrous world , is the world of the great sea . There ...
... strange flora , so unlike that of the rest of the world , and its odd and mar- vellous animals , an aged , dying island , which the ocean is slowly burying , inch by inch . And a wondrous world , is the world of the great sea . There ...
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... strange a chase ! The giant of the seas racing in furious haste after hardly visible , faintly colored , jelly - balls ! But , for othe : purposes , also , there is incessant travel going on in the ocean's hidden realm . Water is the ...
... strange a chase ! The giant of the seas racing in furious haste after hardly visible , faintly colored , jelly - balls ! But , for othe : purposes , also , there is incessant travel going on in the ocean's hidden realm . Water is the ...
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... strange land of ocean - prairies ! Off Take these fuci out of their briny element , and they present you with forms as whimsical as luxuriant . They are , in truth , nothing more than shapeless mass- es of jelly , covered with a ...
... strange land of ocean - prairies ! Off Take these fuci out of their briny element , and they present you with forms as whimsical as luxuriant . They are , in truth , nothing more than shapeless mass- es of jelly , covered with a ...
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... strange animal trees . They build large , powerful castles , and high , lofty steeples , resting upon the very bottom of the ocean , rising stone upon stone , and cemented like no other build- ing on this globe . For they are a strange ...
... strange animal trees . They build large , powerful castles , and high , lofty steeples , resting upon the very bottom of the ocean , rising stone upon stone , and cemented like no other build- ing on this globe . For they are a strange ...
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... strange , ill - shapen , and unheard of molluscs , fish , and shellfish more among them ! Here they are huge balls , there many cornered or starlike , then again like long streaming ribbons . Some are armed with large , prominent teeth ...
... strange , ill - shapen , and unheard of molluscs , fish , and shellfish more among them ! Here they are huge balls , there many cornered or starlike , then again like long streaming ribbons . Some are armed with large , prominent teeth ...
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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?
Page 296 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
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...