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Page 17
... glass slide in the usual way , with a little Canada balsam , the tongues of these molluscs , and of others belong- ing to the same class , are very beautiful and interesting objects . The most careless observer cannot but be struck with ...
... glass slide in the usual way , with a little Canada balsam , the tongues of these molluscs , and of others belong- ing to the same class , are very beautiful and interesting objects . The most careless observer cannot but be struck with ...
Page 29
... glass tank with other marine creatures . The crab died . Next day we found that the anemone had forsaken the empty shell , and fixed herself elsewhere . She did not long survive ; nor were her beauties ever displayed as they had been ...
... glass tank with other marine creatures . The crab died . Next day we found that the anemone had forsaken the empty shell , and fixed herself elsewhere . She did not long survive ; nor were her beauties ever displayed as they had been ...
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... glass sides were clean and bright , the sea - water was pure , and every now and then bubbles of oxygen gas were given out by the plants , and rose sparkling to the surface . The house was ready , but those who were to be its inmates ...
... glass sides were clean and bright , the sea - water was pure , and every now and then bubbles of oxygen gas were given out by the plants , and rose sparkling to the surface . The house was ready , but those who were to be its inmates ...
Page 32
... glass of sea - water , expanded itself as usual . But these grievances are trifling compared to some to which it is oc- casionally subjected , and which it survives . If cut down right in two , each part will reproduce what is deficient ...
... glass of sea - water , expanded itself as usual . But these grievances are trifling compared to some to which it is oc- casionally subjected , and which it survives . If cut down right in two , each part will reproduce what is deficient ...
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... glass vessels for conveyance home . I had read of this , but had never experienced it before ; but now it was no longer a matter of hearsay , it was a fact brought within my own experience . The feeling , was , however , slight and ...
... glass vessels for conveyance home . I had read of this , but had never experienced it before ; but now it was no longer a matter of hearsay , it was a fact brought within my own experience . The feeling , was , however , slight and ...
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Page 365 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 362 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Page 370 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 408 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere.
Page 377 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple...
Page 366 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 360 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Page 388 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii.
Page 363 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention...
Page 388 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...