Motes in the Sunbeam: And Other Parables from NatureR. Carter & Brothers, 1871 - 153 páginas |
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answered beautiful Birch bird Bird of Night Bookworm Bowman branches bulrushes Butterfly Caterpillar Circle of Blessing clouds comfort creature Crickets cried dear delight Dial earth exclaimed eyes feel fellow flew flowers Frog garden gone Grub happy head heard heart hope hour innocent bird knew Lark laughed leaves light listen live look Magpie Melbourne House moon that shone morning Mother murmured Naturalist nature never night old Relation once phyte pond poor pretty queen quired replied ROBERT CARTER Robin Rose-tree round sailor sang Seaweed Sedge Warbler seemed shine sing smile song soon Spruce-fir storm Sundews sunshine sure talk tell thing thought tion told Tomkins Tortoise Traveller-bee trees turned Uncle Collins Undine Unknown Land upwards Vapours voice Weathercock Will-o'-the-Wisp wind wonder Woodlark words working-bees young Zoöphyte
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Página 38 - ... the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground...
Página 5 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity — besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature ; that universal and public manuscript, that lies expanded unto the eyes of all — those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Página 8 - Sole sitting, still at every dying fall Takes up again her lamentable strain Of winding woe; till, wide around, the woods Sigh to her song and with her wail resound.
Página 10 - Oh ! may we keep and ponder in our mind God's wondrous love in saving lost mankind...
Página 8 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Página 40 - If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Página 46 - said the Caterpillar, indignantly. " It was their dying mother's last request that I should do no such thing." " Their dying mother knew nothing about the matter...
Página 48 - exclaimed the Caterpillar, ':you jest with my inferiority — no\v you are cruel as well as foolish. Go away ! I will ask your advice no more." "I told you you would not believe me," cried the Lark, nettled in his turn.
Página 124 - ... wings out of the carcase he was forsaking; and though shrivelled and damp at first, they stretched and expanded in the sunshine, till they glistened as if with fire. ' How long the strange process continued, I can scarcely tell, so fixed was I in astonishment and admiration ; but I saw the beautiful creature at last poise himself for a second or two in the air before he took flight. I saw the four gauzy pinions flash back the sunshine that was poured on them. I heard the clash with which they...
Página 42 - Two heads are better than one. I will consult some wise animal upon the matter, and get advice. How should a poor crawling creature like me know what to do without asking my betters?