| Wonders - 1847 - 444 pages
...design The signature and stamp of power divine ; Contrivance intricate express'd with ease. « * * # * Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, — His mighty work who speaks and it is done. COWPER. THE VIRGINIAN OPOSSUM. Opossum, ALTHOUGH the opossum has long been known to European naturalists,... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...intricate express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle...mighty work who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field. To wonder at a thousand insect forms,... | |
| Charles Hargreaves - 1850 - 242 pages
...exquisite, express' d with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees ; The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point ; Muscle...work ; who speaks and it is done : The Invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd ; To whom an atom is an ample field. The equal number of the sexes, and... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle...work, who speaks, and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample nV;-J ; To wonder at a thousand insect forms,... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...with eaee, Where unassisted eight no beauty весе ;• • The shapely Umband lubricated jouit. Within the small dimensions of a point : Muscle and...miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and It is .Inne f Th' Invisible In thing* scarce soen reveal'd; To whom ¡ш atom Is an ample field !" Cowper'e... | |
| Ireland. National Education Board - 1851 - 368 pages
...intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees ; The sho.pely limb, and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle...work, who speaks and it is done ; The Invisible, in things scarce °een revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field ; To wonder at a thousand insect forms,... | |
| 1851 - 496 pages
...intricate, express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees ; The shapely limb, and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle...work, who speaks and it is done, The Invisible, in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field : To wonder at a thousand insect forms,... | |
| 1851 - 808 pages
...intricate, expressed with ease, AVhere unassisted sight no beauty sees ; The shapely limbs, the lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point ; Muscle...; His mighty work who speaks and it is done.' The smallest insect is not less perfect than the giraffe, the elephant, or the cumel. Nor even here does... | |
| 1851 - 268 pages
...intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees : The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, — Ilia mighty work, who spake and it was done." What is the root of muse ? Mitsa, a muse. What noun... | |
| William Jardine - 1852 - 392 pages
...skill than if it had occupied a much larger space. The shapely limb, and lubricated joint, AVithin the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve...work, who speaks and it is done; The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field. " To the eye of the naturalist," says... | |
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