Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 5661834Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 314 páginas
...tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. * * « * O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. COLERIDGE'S Ancient Mariner. GLAUCUS; OB, THE WONDERS... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 páginas
...coveteousness. We gazed upon the savages as the Ancient Mariner did upon the bright water-snakes :— "A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware ; Sure my kind saint took pity on me,And I blessed them unaware." We have no ambition to be sentimentally conservative; but we do lament... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 páginas
...worth of their common vital source. Whea Coleridge said of the creatures of the great calm, — "Oh, happy, living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. A spring of love gashed in my heart, And I blessed them, unaware, Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 páginas
...happiness of the animals floating in his sight; and when from his lips breaks a blessing upon them, — "0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare. A spring of lore gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 páginas
...creatures of They moved in tracks of shining white, cairf.re"" And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beau- Q happy living things ! no tongue ty and their _ .riv ° happiness. Their 'beauty might... | |
| Ellen Luscombe - 1861 - 184 páginas
...reminded us of that beautiful passage in the Ancient Mariner so beloved by all marine naturalists — " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...They coiled and swam, and every track Was a flash of living fire. O happy living things ! no tongue This beauty might declare." So charming was the sight... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire....tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1861 - 444 páginas
...watched the water-snakes ; They moved in tracks of shining light, And, when they reared, the elfish white Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their rich aftirc ; * " On the Luminous Appearance of the Sea, caused by Noctiluca JuTiaris," by JW Lawraucc,... | |
| 1863 - 392 páginas
...watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. " Within the shadow of the...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. ™ -f* i*-• Jr ••-• —• . «» , • ^ «f * ' no ton§ue declare: •> ^ «oai ||i;hc'il... | |
| 1863 - 510 páginas
...these exquisite organisms are not without a purpose! There must be some office which they fulfil. " Oh, happy living things ! No tongue Their beauty might...gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware." The cilia always move in one direction, and in the bronchial tubes this is toward the windpipe —... | |
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