Putnam's Monthly, Volume 5G.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 |
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... rise in daring rebellion under the sudden , sullen fury of the typhoon , it is but child's play compared with the gigantic and yet silent , lawful movement , in which they ascend to the very heavens on high , where " He bindeth up the ...
... rise in daring rebellion under the sudden , sullen fury of the typhoon , it is but child's play compared with the gigantic and yet silent , lawful movement , in which they ascend to the very heavens on high , where " He bindeth up the ...
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... rise and prairies sink , so does the bottom of the sea rise and fall . In the South Sea this takes place alternately , at stated times . To such sinking portions of our earth belongs , among others , New Holland . So far from being a ...
... rise and prairies sink , so does the bottom of the sea rise and fall . In the South Sea this takes place alternately , at stated times . To such sinking portions of our earth belongs , among others , New Holland . So far from being a ...
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... rise from the foam - covered waves , their homes never seen by human eye , their young ones bred in lands unknown to ... rising through the midst of salt water , but it has also its lofty forests , with luxuriant parasites , its vast ...
... rise from the foam - covered waves , their homes never seen by human eye , their young ones bred in lands unknown to ... rising through the midst of salt water , but it has also its lofty forests , with luxuriant parasites , its vast ...
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... rise up nearer to the surface , to be transcendently rich and gorgeous in brightest green , gold , and purple . And ... rising like islands from be- neath , and snorting through the angry spray ! Perhaps they graze peacefully in the ...
... rise up nearer to the surface , to be transcendently rich and gorgeous in brightest green , gold , and purple . And ... rising like islands from be- neath , and snorting through the angry spray ! Perhaps they graze peacefully in the ...
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... rise to fantastic fables , and amusing errors . For centuries the world believed that these bright - colored , delicate flowers , which , out of their ele- ment , appeared only humble , brown stones , were real , fragile sea - plants ...
... rise to fantastic fables , and amusing errors . For centuries the world believed that these bright - colored , delicate flowers , which , out of their ele- ment , appeared only humble , brown stones , were real , fragile sea - plants ...
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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...