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... coloured light on the waterfall ? Is not the sunbeam so dear to us that it has become a household word for all that is merry and gay ? and when we want to describe the dearest , busiest little sprite amongst us , who wakes. 26 THE FAIRY ...
... coloured light on the waterfall ? Is not the sunbeam so dear to us that it has become a household word for all that is merry and gay ? and when we want to describe the dearest , busiest little sprite amongst us , who wakes. 26 THE FAIRY ...
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... Coloured spectrum thrown by a prism on the wall . DE , Window - shutter . F , Round hole in it . A BC , Glass prism . M N , Wall . you let a ray of light into a darkened room , and pass it through the prism as in the diagram ( Fig . 7 ) ...
... Coloured spectrum thrown by a prism on the wall . DE , Window - shutter . F , Round hole in it . A BC , Glass prism . M N , Wall . you let a ray of light into a darkened room , and pass it through the prism as in the diagram ( Fig . 7 ) ...
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... coloured line is only our sunbeam again , which has been split up into many colours by passing through the glass , as it is in the rain - drops of the rainbow and the bubbles of the scum of the pond . Till now we have talked of the ...
... coloured line is only our sunbeam again , which has been split up into many colours by passing through the glass , as it is in the rain - drops of the rainbow and the bubbles of the scum of the pond . Till now we have talked of the ...
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... coloured line on the wall ( Fig . 7 ) , while the rapid little Fig . 8 . B A , Cardboard painted with the seven colours in succession . B , Same cardboard spun quickly round . violet waves are bent more out of their road and run to V at ...
... coloured line on the wall ( Fig . 7 ) , while the rapid little Fig . 8 . B A , Cardboard painted with the seven colours in succession . B , Same cardboard spun quickly round . violet waves are bent more out of their road and run to V at ...
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... coloured differently according to the waves they send back . For instance , imagine a sunbeam playing on a leaf : part of its waves bound straight back from it to our eye and make us see the surface of the leaf , but the rest go right ...
... coloured differently according to the waves they send back . For instance , imagine a sunbeam playing on a leaf : part of its waves bound straight back from it to our eye and make us see the surface of the leaf , but the rest go right ...
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Page 152 - 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 192 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 5 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
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