 SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.  The Popular Science Monthly - עמוד 461897תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1924 - 880 דפים
...unconfidently to the future. ON DESIGN IN NATURE BY WILLIAM K. GREGORY See what a lovely shell, . . . With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! — Tennyson. ENG matter is forever dealing with a future by ns of a present which has grown out of... | |
 | 1888 - 426 דפים
...aid of authors and collectors, who may possess unfigured or critical species. January, 1883. GWT, JR. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl. How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it ?— a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 דפים
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust; We are not worthy to live. XXIV I SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2 What is... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 דפים
...Maud's brother and fled to Brittany, in this exile and loneliness he notices a shell on the beach: See what a lovely shell. Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it?... | |
 | V. S. Varadarajan - 1999 - 326 דפים
...Series. QA403. V37 1988 515'.2433-dcl9 87-30911 ISBN 0521 34 156 6 hardback ISBN 0 521 66362 8 paperback See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it?... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 דפים
...of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust; We are not worthy to live. [223-7[ II 1 See what a lovely shell. Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it?... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1995 - 310 דפים
...countercharm. On the beach in Brittany, he views a beautiful shell on which he obsesses strangely: See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well. (»-49-53) With a few changes of wording, he might be describing Maud. Like her, the... | |
 | Michael Bond - 2001 - 164 דפים
...couldn't make head or tail of what it was all about. 'See what a lovely shell,' said Karen Sawdust. 'Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design!' Olga knew what shells were. The inside of Boris's castle at the seaside had been decorated with shells.... | |
 | Michael Bond - 2002 - 460 דפים
...couldn't make head or tail of what it was all about. 'See what a lovely shell' said Karen Sawdust. 'Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design T Olga knew what shells were. The inside of Boris's castle at the seaside had been decorated with shells.... | |
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