 Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing...  Recreations in Geology - Seite 228von Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 396 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1855 - 590 Seiten
...living race having for their foundation the graves of the past race. '- Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day, Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy instruments, By which a hand... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 Seiten
...to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariablt, No moment and no movement unimproved, Line laid on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy instruments, By which a hand... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 Seiten
...which, as they die off, increase the growth of the firm and solid fabric. " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Line laid on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound,... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 Seiten
...coralworms, which modern science has enabled us to study in our parlors. "Millions on millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unwortby instruments, By which a band... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 Seiten
...the language of poetry to describe the result of their united labours. " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing toward the day. VARIETIES OF CORAL REEFS. 143 Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought Unconscious,... | |
 | W. J. Lake - 1858 - 182 Seiten
...by what meets the view on looking into the sea in those fairy regions." " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...brightening, gradual mound By marvellous structure rising towards the day." III. Islands and Reefs. The whole Pacific crowded with coral-reefs and islands... | |
 | W. J. Lake - 1858 - 176 Seiten
...by what meets the view on looking into the sea in those fairy regions." " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...brightening, gradual mound By marvellous structure rising towards the day." HL Islands and Reefs. The whole Pacific crowded with coral-reefs and islands... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - 1859 - 492 Seiten
...these animals referred to by James Montgomery in the following lines : — " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, * Gosse. "Aquarium," p. 126. Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread. To swell the heightening,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 Seiten
...which, as they die off, increase the growth of the firm and solid fabric. " Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a hand... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 414 Seiten
...Hermetically seal'd, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable,...brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,... | |
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