Sea-side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amongst animal aquarium asked Willy bait beautiful believe bird body byssus called catch caught cloth gilt coast colour common Conchology Conway cormorant Country Walks crab crustacea curious dare say delicate devour dredge eaten eggs feet fins fish fishermen fluid foraminifera garfish GRACE AGUILAR gull head holes horny hydrozoa inches long Jack Jacko Laminaria lesser black-backed gull limpets little creature live look mackerel microscope molluscs mouth mussels Nottingham Catchfly oyster papa Parry Evans plant poisonous polyps pool prawns pretty prey PTILOTA PLUMOSA Puffin Island puffins Rhos-fynach rock round salmon sand sand-launces sea-anemones sea-hare sea-side sea-weed seen shark shell shore shrimps skate sometimes soon specimen spicules sponge star-fish stone substance suckers surface swallow swim SYNAPTA tail teeth tentacles thick thing threads tide tube Weir Fishery whelks whitebait Willy asked worm young zoophyte
Popular passages
Page 94 - of that— Glorious mirror, where the Almighty form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark heaving ; boundless, endless, and sublime.
Page 61 - in the following lines— I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listen'd intensely, and his countenance soon
Page 150 - his dim water-world ? Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, Frail, but of force to withstand, Year upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock Here on the Breton strand 1
Page 117 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards,
Page 112 - and hangeth onely by the bill; in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having blacke legs, and bill or beake, and
Page 118 - animal could express delight, it was this; if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could not have done it more intelligibly. Suppose, then, what I have no doubt of, each individual of this number to be in a state of positive enjoyment, what a sum, collectively, of
Page 113 - as our magpie, called in some places a Pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree-goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to
Page 112 - wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies, with the branches, of old and rotten trees cast up there likewise, whereon is found a certain spume or froth that, in time, breedeth into certain shels, in shape, like those of the
Page 25 - name; Some in huge masses, some that you may bring In the small compass of a lady's ring; Figured by Hand Divine—there's not a gem Wrought by man's art to be compared to them. Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow.
Page 126 - And it bubbles and seethes, and it hisses and roars, As when fire is with water commix'd and contending; And the spray of its wrath to the welkin up-soars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending; And, as with the swell of the far thunder boom,