| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales until you cannot see their jaints, — but their shining is that of a snake's belly, alter all. — In deeper suggestiveness I... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 422 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle ; the sea smooths its silver scales until you cannot see their joints,—but their shining is that of a snake's belly, after all. In deeper suggestiveness I find... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales...see their joints, — but their shining is that of a snake'8 belly, after ail. — In deeper suggestiveness I find as great a difference. The mountains... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1876 - 424 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle ; the sea smooths its silver scales...cannot see their joints, but their shining is that of the snake. The mountains may dwarf mankind ; the sea seems to drown out humanity and time." d 11, 12.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales...after all. — In deeper suggestiveness I find as gieat a difference The mountains dwarf mankind And foreshorten the procession of its long generations.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales...long generations. The sea drowns out humanity and time1; it has no sympathy with either; for it belongs to eternity, and of that it sihgs its monotonous... | |
| 1882 - 780 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle ; the sea smooths its silver scales...cannot see their joints, but their shining is that of the snake. The THE NEW fERUSALEM. mountains may dwarf mankind ; the sea seems to drown out humanity... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 254 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales...that of a snake's belly, after all. — In deeper siiggestiveness I find as great a difference. The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its silver scales until you cannot seeio their joints — but their shining is that of a snake's belly, after all. In deeper suggestiveness... | |
| 1893 - 722 pages
...upon, but safe to handle. The sea smoothes its silver scales, until you cannot see their joints,—but their shining is that of a snake's belly, after all. In deeper suggest!veness I find as great a difference. The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession... | |
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