The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live inMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 429 pages |
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... 367 Sea Life . The Ocean Depths Coral Islands . The Southern Skies The Poles CHAPTER X THE STARRY HEAVENS The Moon The Sun. The Planets 373 · 377 · 382 387 PAGE Mercury 388 Venus 390 The Earth 391 Mars 392 viii CONTENTS.
... 367 Sea Life . The Ocean Depths Coral Islands . The Southern Skies The Poles CHAPTER X THE STARRY HEAVENS The Moon The Sun. The Planets 373 · 377 · 382 387 PAGE Mercury 388 Venus 390 The Earth 391 Mars 392 viii CONTENTS.
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Sir John Lubbock. PAGE Mercury 388 Venus 390 The Earth 391 Mars 392 The Minor Planets . 393 Jupiter 394 Saturn 395 Uranus 396 Neptune . 397 Origin of the Planetary System 398 Comets 401 Shooting Stars 406 The Stars 410 Nebulæ 425 ...
Sir John Lubbock. PAGE Mercury 388 Venus 390 The Earth 391 Mars 392 The Minor Planets . 393 Jupiter 394 Saturn 395 Uranus 396 Neptune . 397 Origin of the Planetary System 398 Comets 401 Shooting Stars 406 The Stars 410 Nebulæ 425 ...
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... earth is a benefit ? If any one gave you money , you would call that a benefit . God has buried countless masses of gold and silver in the earth . If a house were given you , bright with marble , its roof beautifully painted with ...
... earth is a benefit ? If any one gave you money , you would call that a benefit . God has buried countless masses of gold and silver in the earth . If a house were given you , bright with marble , its roof beautifully painted with ...
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... earth , and even of that which is under our very eyes how little we see ! What we do see depends mainly on what we look for . When we turn our eyes to the sky , it is in most cases merely to see whether it is likely to rain . In the ...
... earth , and even of that which is under our very eyes how little we see ! What we do see depends mainly on what we look for . When we turn our eyes to the sky , it is in most cases merely to see whether it is likely to rain . In the ...
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... earth . " Those who love Nature can never be dull . They may have other temptations ; but at least they will run no risk of being beguiled , by ennui , idleness , or want of occupation , " to buy the merry madness of an hour with the ...
... earth . " Those who love Nature can never be dull . They may have other temptations ; but at least they will run no risk of being beguiled , by ennui , idleness , or want of occupation , " to buy the merry madness of an hour with the ...
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Page 27 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 152 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 100 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 151 - GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 314 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 199 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 322 - Yet more ! the billows and the depths have more ! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast ! They hear not now the booming waters roar, The battle-thunders will not break their rest. Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave...
Page 125 - But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to blossom ; they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder.
Page 234 - Of all inorganic substances, acting in their own proper nature, and without assistance or combination, water is the most wonderful. If we think of it as the source of all the changefulness and beauty which we have seen in clouds ; then as the instrument by which the earth we have contemplated was modelled into symmetry, and its crags chiselled into grace ; then as, in the form of snow, it robes the mountains it has made, with that transcendent light which we could not have...
Page xii - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.