Longman's Magazine, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1883 |
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... earth ; ' he left such enduring monu- ments to scientific theorists , and applied the great powers of his mind - he called them without the faintest consciousness of self- satire its ' grasp ' -to contracts ; mostly in connection with ...
... earth ; ' he left such enduring monu- ments to scientific theorists , and applied the great powers of his mind - he called them without the faintest consciousness of self- satire its ' grasp ' -to contracts ; mostly in connection with ...
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... earth , Charley , did Mr. Paton first see the creature ? ' ' Well , one would think by my mother's description that he must have seen him always ; that it was impossible for such a portent , being in the same hemisphere , to avoid ...
... earth , Charley , did Mr. Paton first see the creature ? ' ' Well , one would think by my mother's description that he must have seen him always ; that it was impossible for such a portent , being in the same hemisphere , to avoid ...
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... earth's atmosphere , were almost as pervious as a vacuum to ordinary radiant heat , the compound gases were one and all absorbers , some of them taking up with intense avidity the motion of the ether - waves . A single illustration will ...
... earth's atmosphere , were almost as pervious as a vacuum to ordinary radiant heat , the compound gases were one and all absorbers , some of them taking up with intense avidity the motion of the ether - waves . A single illustration will ...
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... earth's emission they are wholly absent , the vapour - screen offers a far greater hindrance to the outflow of heat from the earth towards space than to the inflow from the sun towards the earth . The elevation of our planet's ...
... earth's emission they are wholly absent , the vapour - screen offers a far greater hindrance to the outflow of heat from the earth towards space than to the inflow from the sun towards the earth . The elevation of our planet's ...
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... earth the granite boulders plentifully bestrewing its surface , invented rather than discovered their reluctant fertility . In many parts of New Eng- land the Western jokes about sharpening the sheep's noses for their greater ...
... earth the granite boulders plentifully bestrewing its surface , invented rather than discovered their reluctant fertility . In many parts of New Eng- land the Western jokes about sharpening the sheep's noses for their greater ...
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Página 666 - ... lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Página 669 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Página 664 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 69 - IN anything fit. to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.
Página 588 - Moreover, his marvellous coolness and daring in hob-andnobbing with the hangman, under the unprecedented circumstances of the shepherd's party, won their admiration. So that it may be questioned if all those who ostensibly made themselves so busy in exploring woods and fields and lanes were quite so thorough when it came to the private examination of their own lofts and outhouses. Stories were afloat of a mysterious figure being occasionally seen in some old overgrown trackway or other, remote from...
Página 669 - My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Página 584 - tis as much as my legs will do to take me that far. Going the same way ?' 'No, I am sorry to say! I have to get home over there' (he nodded indefinitely to the right), 'and I feel as you do, that it is quite enough for my legs to do before bedtime.
Página 307 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Página 170 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 580 - My tools are but common ones, Simple shepherds all — My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me ! Shepherd Fennel glanced round. There was no longer any doubt that the stranger was answering his question rhythmically. The guests one and all started back with suppressed exclamations. The young woman engaged to the man of fifty fainted half-way, and would have proceeded, but finding him wanting in alacrity for catching her she sat...