Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nide 7

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Sivu 264 - Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad, As though he joye'd in his plentious store, Laden with fruits that made him laugh, full glad That he had banisht hunger, which to-fore Had by the belly oft him pinche'd sore : Upon his head a wreath, that was enrold With ears of corne of every sort, he bore ; And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
Sivu 245 - And in his hand a javelin he did beare, And on his head (as fit for warlike stoures) A guilt engraven morion he did weare; That as some did him love, so others did him feare.
Sivu 265 - Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whil'st on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limbeck did adown distill.
Sivu 95 - Wallace demanded for them 500,000 years] to have required a considerable lapse of time, may possibly have been formed at the rate of a quarter of an inch per annum, and the human bones which lie buried under the stalagmite in the cave of Bruniquel, are not for that reason to be taken to be of vast antiquity.
Sivu 354 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Sivu 372 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets* that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Sivu 408 - ... conveyed, assigned, and transferred in such sort and manner, and so as that the same shall and may be legally and effectually vested in the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees...
Sivu 407 - Society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members...
Sivu 46 - The pearl which the fowl searches for in the dunghill is nought else but its own egg ; and the egg of the hen in the sky is the sun itself.
Sivu 240 - Magazine. On some new Trilobites from the Upper Cambrian of North Wales. Vol. iv., p. 294. On the Lingula Flags, or Festiniog Group of the Dolgelly District. Vol. iv., pp. 493-536, and voL v., p. 5. On the First Stages of the Glacial Period in Norfolk and Suffolk.

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