 ... mark the eyes of a naturalist when you tell him of some new marine creature, half vegetable, half animal, which springs up in the shape of a tumbler, with something like an umbrella and stalk in the middle ; or only speak of a new holothuria, original...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 641832Full view - About this book
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 632 pages
...its tentacula! In the same way have the ordinary characters of society fallen into a kind of coatempt in our literature. It was very well for Homer to describe...and the lion in the infancy of natural history. But anything like a full-grown, healthy, natural man, is now of no use. Everybody knew all about him a?es... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 370 pages
...middle ; or only speak of a new holothuria, original in the number of its tentacula ! In the same way have the ordinary characters of society fallen into...and the lion in the infancy of natural history. But anything like a full-grown, healthy, natural man, is now of no use. Everybody knew all about him ages... | |
 | 1854 - 404 pages
...middle ; or only speak of a new holothuria, original in the number of its tentacnla ! In the same way have the ordinary characters of society fallen into...and the lion in the infancy of natural history. But anything like a full-grown, healthy, natural man, is now of no use. Everybody knew all about him ages... | |
 | Tales - Short stories, English - 1864 - 242 pages
...middle ; or only speak of a new holothuria, original in the number of its tentacula ! In the same way have the ordinary characters of society fallen into...Spectator to talk of such men as Will Honeycomb or Sir Eoger de Coverley. These personages were like the horse and the lion in the infancy of natural history.... | |
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