Putnam's Monthly, Volume 5G.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 |
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... side the fairest of Europe's fair daughters . Often and often had he gazed down into the fierce seething cauldron beneath him , and in vain had he offered the gold of his treasure and the honors of his court to him who would dive into ...
... side the fairest of Europe's fair daughters . Often and often had he gazed down into the fierce seething cauldron beneath him , and in vain had he offered the gold of his treasure and the honors of his court to him who would dive into ...
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... to its own path high in heaven . Harmless and powerless this wave rolls along the placid surface of the ocean . But lands arise , New Holland on one side , South- ern Asia on the other , and the low but 2 [ Jan. The Ocean and its Life .
... to its own path high in heaven . Harmless and powerless this wave rolls along the placid surface of the ocean . But lands arise , New Holland on one side , South- ern Asia on the other , and the low but 2 [ Jan. The Ocean and its Life .
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... sides , it rises here and there to the enormous height of eighty feet . Such is not rarely the case in the Bay of Fundy ... side , is quite astonishing . The great Humboldt found at Truxillo , the undisturbed waters as warm as 22 degrees ...
... sides , it rises here and there to the enormous height of eighty feet . Such is not rarely the case in the Bay of Fundy ... side , is quite astonishing . The great Humboldt found at Truxillo , the undisturbed waters as warm as 22 degrees ...
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... side of count- less skeletons , gathered from every shore and every clime . There moulders the bald skull of the brave sea captain , by the side of the broken armor of gigantic turtles ; the whaler's harpoon peaceably near the tooth of ...
... side of count- less skeletons , gathered from every shore and every clime . There moulders the bald skull of the brave sea captain , by the side of the broken armor of gigantic turtles ; the whaler's harpoon peaceably near the tooth of ...
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... side . The battle commen- ces ; both seek the forest ; their fins be- come entangled in the closely interwoven branches ; at last the more agile shark succeeds in wounding his adversary's side . Despairing of life , the bleeding walrus ...
... side . The battle commen- ces ; both seek the forest ; their fins be- come entangled in the closely interwoven branches ; at last the more agile shark succeeds in wounding his adversary's side . Despairing of life , the bleeding walrus ...
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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 new-born blisses, A six years...
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 467 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
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 10 - His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known.
Page 343 - 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 561 - 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 298 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 571 - Modest and shy as a nun is she ; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can ! Chee, chee, chee.
Page 120 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.