| Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1899 - Počet stránok 310
...History of Selborne." THE SHELL SEE, Avhat 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 spine and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design. The tiny shell is forlorn, Void of the... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1899 - Počet stránok 496
...sees them out of all proportion, and then falls into the inevitable fit of scornful peevishness. " What is it ? A learned man Could give it a clumsy name I Let him name it who can," The question which concerns the world is, how this condition of the mind... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - Počet stránok 752
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the dust; We are not worthy to live. n. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it 1 a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - Počet stránok 996
...weak race of venomous worms, That sting each other here in the duit: We are not worthy to live. n. Sec what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design I What is it 1 a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - Počet stránok 358
...for we hold Thee just, 4-5 That sting each other here in the dust; We are not worthy to live. XXIV See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well 5 With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! XXIII 31, 32. The "Wraith"... | |
| Frederick Manley, William Nicholas Hailmann - 1902 - Počet stránok 478
...As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost can ne'er be found again. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairly well, With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design. TENNYSON "... | |
| Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1902 - Počet stránok 366
...daffodils. Words for study : — continuous jocund vacant pensive 333 THE SHELL BY ALFRED TENNYSON See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so f airily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! Slight,... | |
| Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - 1903 - Počet stránok 230
...things floated away and went ashore upon the sands. SECTION V. FOR MEMORIZING•. Learn by heart : — See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...whorl, How exquisitely minute, A. miracle of design ! Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - Počet stránok 644
...century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, Arid blossom in purple and red. PART II II i See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,...foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well 5 With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! II What is it? a learned... | |
| M. Halley, Leonard Lemmon - 1903 - Počet stránok 244
...inventory — list. detail — small part. glazier — man who handles glass. melancholy — sad ; gloomy. See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle... | |
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