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... feet of his fair , tempting child , he threw him- self down into the raging flood . The waters closed over him , hissing and seething in restless madness , and deeper VOL . V. - 1 and darker grew the fierce whirlpool . All eyes were ...
... feet of his fair , tempting child , he threw him- self down into the raging flood . The waters closed over him , hissing and seething in restless madness , and deeper VOL . V. - 1 and darker grew the fierce whirlpool . All eyes were ...
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... feet of his fair , tempting child , he threw him- self down into the raging flood . The waters closed over him , hissing and seething in restless madness , and deeper VOL . V. - 1 and darker grew the fierce whirlpool . All eyes were ...
... feet of his fair , tempting child , he threw him- self down into the raging flood . The waters closed over him , hissing and seething in restless madness , and deeper VOL . V. - 1 and darker grew the fierce whirlpool . All eyes were ...
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... feet high , but extend- ing down to the bottom of the sea , and moves it onwards , chained as it were to its own path high in heaven . Harmless and powerless this wave rolls along the placid surface of the ocean . But lands arise , New ...
... feet high , but extend- ing down to the bottom of the sea , and moves it onwards , chained as it were to its own path high in heaven . Harmless and powerless this wave rolls along the placid surface of the ocean . But lands arise , New ...
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... feet . Such is not rarely the case in the Bay of Fundy - a circumstance which shows us forcibly the vast superiority of this silent , steady movement over that of the fiercest tempest . Even at that most stormy and most dreaded spot on ...
... feet . Such is not rarely the case in the Bay of Fundy - a circumstance which shows us forcibly the vast superiority of this silent , steady movement over that of the fiercest tempest . Even at that most stormy and most dreaded spot on ...
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... feet , or a distance equal to the height of Mount Blanc ; and Captain Ross , during his last expedition to the South Pole , found , at 27,600 feet , a depth equal to more than five miles , no bottom yet : so that there the Dawalaghiri ...
... feet , or a distance equal to the height of Mount Blanc ; and Captain Ross , during his last expedition to the South Pole , found , at 27,600 feet , a depth equal to more than five miles , no bottom yet : so that there the Dawalaghiri ...
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Page 468 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 574 - 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,...
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 575 - Soon as the little ones chip the shell, Six wide mouths are open for food; Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; This new life is likely to be Hard for a gay young fellow like me. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 575 - 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 565 - 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 469 - 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 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 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 wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 121 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.