Sunshine and Showers: Their Influences Throughout Creation. A Compendium of Popular Meteorology

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Reeve, 1867 - Meteorology - 432 pages

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Page 247 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 228 - FROM brightening fields of ether fair disclosed, Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth : He comes attended by the sultry Hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way ; While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
Page 210 - Be gracious, Heaven! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And .temper all, thou world-reviving sun, Into the perfect year...
Page 237 - Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee. But see the fading many-colour'd woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
Page 284 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! " I saw the new moon, late yestreen Wi...
Page 295 - And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glow-worms, numerous, clear, and bright, Illumed the dewy hill last night At dusk the squalid toad was seen, Like quadruped, stalk o'er the green. The whirling wind the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays.
Page 196 - Meantime, in sable cincture, shadows vast, Deep-tinged and damp, and congregated clouds, And all the vapoury turbulence of heaven, Involve the face of things. Thus Winter falls A heavy gloom oppressive o'er the world, Through Nature shedding influence malign, And rouses up the seeds of dark disease.
Page 189 - North to South with a quiet Wind without Rain; but returns to the North with a strong Wind and Rain. The strongest Winds are when it turns from South to North by West. When the North Wind first clears the air, which is usually once a Week, be sure of a fair Day or two.
Page 303 - If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy year ; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all...
Page 303 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering.

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