Curiosities of Natural HistoryR. Bentley, 1883 |
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Página 21 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Página xix - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Página 22 - And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Página 339 - They sailed all day through creek and bay, And traversed the ocean deep ; And at night they sank on a coral bank, In its fairy bowers to sleep. And the monsters vast of ages past They beheld in their ocean-caves : They saw them ride in their power and pride, And sink in their deep sea-graves.
Página 15 - And they came at last, to a sea long past, But as they reached its shore, The Almighty's breath spoke out in death. And the ammonite lived no more!
Página 148 - MOURN, Ammonites, mourn o'er his funeral urn, Whose neck ye must grace no more ; Gneiss, granite, and slate, he settled your date, And his ye must now deplore. Weep...
Página 219 - The existence of some enormously large species of the Cuttle-fish tribe in the Indian Northern Seas can hardly be doubted ; and though some accounts may have been much exaggerated, yet there is sufficient cause for believing that such species may very far surpass all that are generally observed about the coasts of European Seas. A...
Página 148 - ... drip, Your recesses he'll cease to explore ; For mineral veins and organic remains No Stratum again will he bore. Oh ! his Wit shone like Crystal ! his knowledge profound From Gravel to Granite descended ; No Trap could deceive him, no Slip could confound, Nor specimen true or pretended. He knew the birth-rock of each pebble so round And how far its tour had extended. His eloquence...
Página 24 - And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it : yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Página 149 - For he is quite in his element underground. If with mattock and spade his body we lay In the common alluvial soil, He'll start up and snatch those tools away Of his own geological toil ; In a stratum so young the Professor disdains That embedded should lie his organic remains.