The Living Age, Volumen198E. Littell & Company, 1893 |
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... remains of ancient bird forms of overarched by the cloudless azure , were which unsuspected evidence had come of a deep blue very characteristic of the to my knowledge , and to explore the old Chatham Island seas , and had just mo ...
... remains of ancient bird forms of overarched by the cloudless azure , were which unsuspected evidence had come of a deep blue very characteristic of the to my knowledge , and to explore the old Chatham Island seas , and had just mo ...
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... remains of their feast ) iden- tical in form with those the Morioris till recently used . ond of more or less friable sea - sand , oven . The stones , evidently brought several feet in depth , either an old from some distance , as there ...
... remains of their feast ) iden- tical in form with those the Morioris till recently used . ond of more or less friable sea - sand , oven . The stones , evidently brought several feet in depth , either an old from some distance , as there ...
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... remains there were thou- sands of swan bones of the same species as that I had gathered by the side of the oven on the Waitangi beach . lake was , therefore , probably their chief home , whither they must have resorted in enormous ...
... remains there were thou- sands of swan bones of the same species as that I had gathered by the side of the oven on the Waitangi beach . lake was , therefore , probably their chief home , whither they must have resorted in enormous ...
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... remains of such characteristic forms of New Zealand life as the tuatara and the weka , the mountain parrot ( Nestor notabilis ) , and and in the heat of the combat we had an the owl , which could not have crossed five hundred miles of ...
... remains of such characteristic forms of New Zealand life as the tuatara and the weka , the mountain parrot ( Nestor notabilis ) , and and in the heat of the combat we had an the owl , which could not have crossed five hundred miles of ...
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... remains of a bird discovered by Mauritius Leguat records seeing geli- Messrs . Strickland and Melville in 1848 notes , or wood - hens , resembling those in the cave earths of Roderiquez ( mate- he had seen in Roderiquez . In 1865 rial ...
... remains of a bird discovered by Mauritius Leguat records seeing geli- Messrs . Strickland and Melville in 1848 notes , or wood - hens , resembling those in the cave earths of Roderiquez ( mate- he had seen in Roderiquez . In 1865 rial ...
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Página 486 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 34 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Página 429 - FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Página 376 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Página 33 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Página 34 - A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes...
Página 42 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 365 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Página 582 - And who is the worse for that?" BOSWELL. "It hurts people of weaker nerves." JOHNSON. "I know no such weak-nerved people." Mr. Burke, to whom I related this conference, said, "It is well, if when a man comes to die, he has nothing heavier upon his conscience than having been a little rough in conversation.