The Broad, Broad Ocean and Some of Its InhabitantsFrederick Warne and Company, 1871 - 420 pages |
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... ROCK - BUILDERS OF THE OCEAN . Remarkable beauty of coral - Form and colour in the ocean - For- merly supposed to be marine plants - Discovered to be the work of minute animals - Placed by Linnæus at the head of the zoophytes- Coral ...
... ROCK - BUILDERS OF THE OCEAN . Remarkable beauty of coral - Form and colour in the ocean - For- merly supposed to be marine plants - Discovered to be the work of minute animals - Placed by Linnæus at the head of the zoophytes- Coral ...
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... Rock - limpets CHAPTER XVIII . SUBMARINE SCENERY . 169-180 Glory of submarine scenery in the tropics - Wonderful transparency of the water — The Bahamas - China seas — Wonders of the submarine depths - Deepest colours of fishes and ...
... Rock - limpets CHAPTER XVIII . SUBMARINE SCENERY . 169-180 Glory of submarine scenery in the tropics - Wonderful transparency of the water — The Bahamas - China seas — Wonders of the submarine depths - Deepest colours of fishes and ...
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... rocks at Lyme Regis - Mary Anning - Dragons in story - books - Description of the icthyosaurus - Head like a crocodile -Numerous immense teeth - Enormous eyes - Body like that of a fish -Buckland's remarks on the remains of food found ...
... rocks at Lyme Regis - Mary Anning - Dragons in story - books - Description of the icthyosaurus - Head like a crocodile -Numerous immense teeth - Enormous eyes - Body like that of a fish -Buckland's remarks on the remains of food found ...
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... Rock - fish - The ballan wrasse - Pike - mouthed fishes - Trumpet - fish , or sea - snipe - The hippocampus , or sca - horse- Origin of its name - The chimæra , or rabbit - fish- Called in Norway the gold and silver fish - Also the sea ...
... Rock - fish - The ballan wrasse - Pike - mouthed fishes - Trumpet - fish , or sea - snipe - The hippocampus , or sca - horse- Origin of its name - The chimæra , or rabbit - fish- Called in Norway the gold and silver fish - Also the sea ...
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... Rock tower in Scotland - Difficulties of its erection - Perils of Stephenson and the workmen -Lighthouse struck by a tremendous sea in 1812 - Lighthouse on the Skerryvore Rocks— Other stone lighthouses - Iron constructions - Height of ...
... Rock tower in Scotland - Difficulties of its erection - Perils of Stephenson and the workmen -Lighthouse struck by a tremendous sea in 1812 - Lighthouse on the Skerryvore Rocks— Other stone lighthouses - Iron constructions - Height of ...
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Page 31 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 2 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 195 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 43 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 195 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil : Still as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 349 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 243 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 1 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 194 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 179 - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air: There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...