Breakfast-table scienceT. Tegg, 1840 - 204 Seiten |
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Seite 109 - That he hung on its margin far and near Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane like a fairy crept, Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped By the light of the moon were seen Most beautiful things.
Seite 109 - There were cities, thrones, temples, and towers ! and these All pictured in silver sheen. But he did one thing that was hardly fair : — He went to the cupboard, and, finding there, That all had forgotten for him to prepare — " Now, just to set them a thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit...
Seite 109 - I'll be as busy as they." 2. Then he flew to the mountain, and powdered its crest; He lit on the trees, and their boughs he dressed In diamond beads; and over the breast Of the quivering lake, he spread A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear, That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head.
Seite 109 - I'll be as busy as they." * Then he flew to the mountain, and powdered its crest ; He lit on the trees, and their boughs he dressed In diamond beads ; and over the breast Of the quivering lake he spread A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear, That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he...
Seite 108 - THE Frost looked forth, one still, clear night, And he said, "Now I shall be out of sight; So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way. I will not go like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, Who make so much bustle and noise in vain. But I'll be as busy as they!
Seite 100 - Thus sailing the heavens, it descends again, unchanged, again to renew the same ceaseless round: for ever roaming between the earth and the vacant regions of space; wandering about the earth below, in the performance of its endless duties, and, though appearing at rest, resting nowhere. This, and more, is water: powerful in its weakness, and powerful in its strength: an union of feebleness and force, of incessant activity and apparent tranquillity, of nullity and ubiquity, of insignificance and power...
Seite 99 - Transparent, and colourless, it is the emblem of purity : in its mobility it is embued with the spirit of life : a self-acting agent, a very will, in the unceasing river, the dancing brook, the furious torrent, and the restless ocean : speaking with its own voice, in the tinkling of the dropping cavern, the murmuring of the rill, the rush of the cascade, and the roar of the sea wave ; and, even in the placid lake, throwing its own spirit of vitality over the immoveable objects around.
Seite 100 - Yielding to every impulse, unresisting, even to light, it becomes the irresistible force before which the ocean-promontory crumbles to dust, and the rocky mountain is levelled with the plain below ; a mechanical power whose energy is without bounds. Of an apparently absolute neutrality, without taste, without smell, a powerless nothingness, that deceptive innocence is the solvent of everything, reducing the thousand solids of the earth to its own form. Again, existing at one instant, in the next...
Seite 100 - ... bounds. Of an apparently absolute neutrality, without taste, without smell — a powerless nothingness — that deceptive innocence is the solvent of everything, reducing the thousand solids of the earth to its own form. Again, existing at one instant, in the next it is gone, as if it were annihilated: to him who knows not its nature, it has ceased to be. It is a lake, and, in a short time, it is nothing: again, it is that lake, and it is a solid rock. It is...
Seite 9 - If there be any who feel sceptical upon the subject of such metamorphoses, let him visit the fairy bowers of Horticulture, and he will there perceive that her magic wand has not only converted the tough, coriaceous covering of the almond into the soft and melting flesh of the peach, but that by her spells the sour Sloe has ripened into the delicious Plum, and the austere Crab of our woods into the Golden Pippin-; that this again has been made to sport in endless variety, emulating in beauty of form...