Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 6Elliott, Thomes & Talbot., 1857 |
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Page 311 - It is very pleasant on this occasion to behold with what sagacity they portion out the lake or the canal where they are upon duty. They hunt, they plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry it without fail to their master. When the fish is too large, they then give each other mutual assistance — one seizes it by the head, the other by the tail, and in this manner carry it to the boat together.
Page 260 - Springing in valleys green and low, And on the mountains high, And in the silent wilderness Where no man passes by ? Our outward life requires them not ; Then wherefore had they birth ? — To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth. To comfort man, — to whisper hope Whene'er his faith is dim ; For who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him ! THE WOODLAND SANCTUARY.
Page 427 - Is it well with thee ? is it well with thy husband ? is it well with the child ? And she answered, It is well.
Page 542 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 194 - A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing, the rain are opposite to the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates, that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us ; whereas the rainbow in the east proves, that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.
Page 260 - God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine and toil And yet have made no flowers.
Page 292 - The pondlily grows abundantly along the margin; that delicious flower which, as Thoreau tells me, opens its virgin bosom to the first sunlight, and perfects its being through the magic of that genial kiss.
Page 120 - ... head to give a little relief to my ears. The alarm which we spread was so much the more general among these innumerable legions of birds, as we principally disturbed the females which were then sitting. They had nests, eggs, and young to defend. They were like furious harpies let loose against us, and their cries rendered us almost deaf. They often flew so near us that they flapped their wings in our faces, and though we fired our pieces repeatedly we were not able to frighten them; it seemed...
Page 292 - ... one side carries it up to an equal height on the other — so in a watch a spring, generally spiral, surrounding the axis of the balancewheel, is always pulling this towards a middle position of rest, but does not fix it there, because the momentum acquired during its approach...
Page 193 - Appearance,' was never more invisible to any man. He reads History not with the eye of a devout seer, or even of a critic ; but through a pair of mere anticatholic spectacles. It is not a mighty drama, enacted on the theatre of Infinitude, with Suns for lamps, and Eternity as a background ; whose author is God, and whose purport and thousandfold moral lead us up to the