 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.  Appletons' Popular Science Monthly - עמוד 46נערך על ידי - 1897תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 דפים
...Ocean murmurs there. WS Länder. SHELLS— Beauties of. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exqusitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 דפים
...race of venomous worms. That sting each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live. XXIII. L 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... | |
 | John Gwyn Jeffreys - 1865 - 422 דפים
...both may have sat for their portraits when Tennyson sketched the 23rd Canto of ' Maud/ " Stanza 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 ! 2. " What... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 דפים
...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 desum ! 2. What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 דפים
...The little extract which follows is as gossamer-like as if taken from the " Culprit Fay" itself: " 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... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 דפים
...each other here in the dust ; We are not worthy to live." to the section immediately following : — " See what a lovely shell Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well," &c. And if, as we have suggested, the " New Style " farmer was in the poet's mind when... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 דפים
...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... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 דפים
...are imperceptible. CHAPTER VIII. MOLLUSCS WITH SHELLS. " See what a lovely shell. Small and pure as pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so i'uirily well, With delicate spire and whorl. How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! " TENNYSON.... | |
 | 1869 - 254 דפים
...Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea ? Shelley. MAUD. SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close at my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl How exquisitely... | |
 | William Houghton - 1870 - 220 דפים
...pretty lines on a delicate shell, which you may learn by heart : — * "British Conchology," iii. 375. 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... | |
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