Our Planet, Its Past and Future: Or, Lectures on GeologyW. Denton, 1872 - 344 Seiten |
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Seite 282 - What sights of ugly death within mine eyes. Methought, I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea...
Seite 181 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Seite 185 - But as they reached its shore, The Almighty's breath spoke out in death, And the ammonite lived no more ! So the nautilus now, in its shelly prow, As over the deep it strays, Still seems to seek, in bay and creek, Its companion of other days. And alike do we, on life's stormy sea, As we roam from shore to shore, Thus, tempest-tost, seek the loved, the lost, But find them on earth no more...
Seite 148 - Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct and peculiar to such period. Not that the extinction of such forms or species was sudden or simultaneous : the evidences so interpreted have been but local : over the wider field of life at any given epoch, the change has been gradual; and, as it would, seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on this planet, there has, however,...
Seite 245 - Smith, in dealing with this subject, has emphatically said, that u all land animals having their geographical regions, to which their constitutional natures are congenial, — many of them being unable to live in any other situation, — we cannot represent to ourselves the idea of their being brought into one small spot from the polar regions, the torrid zone, and all the other climates of Asia, Africa, Europe...
Seite 283 - All scattered in the bottom of the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scattered by, Brak.
Seite 135 - ... are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface.
Seite 278 - In the isle of Sheppey fifty acres of land, from sixty to eighty feet above the sea, have been swept away within the last twenty years. The church of Minster, now near the coast, is said to have been in the middle of the island only fifty years ago ; and it is computed that, at the present rate of destruction, the whole of the island will be annihilated in another half century ! The tradition that the Goodwin Sands were once the estates of Earl Goodwin, points, no doubt, to the former existence of...
Seite 31 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below. Enceladus, they say, transfix'd by Jove, With blasted limbs came tumbling from above ; And, where he fell, th...
Seite 128 - A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.