 Even the chrysalis is less amazing, for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and 13* it is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to the eye like a separate unit from some other kingdom of Nature, claiming...  Out-door Papers - Page 298by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and it is but moulting a skin ; but this esg appears to the eye like a separate unit from some...masonry of the Robin to the soft structure of the IIumming-Bird, a babyhouse among nests. Among all created things, the birds come nearest to man in... | |
 | washington: Government Printing Officee - 1865 - 778 pages
...for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect- insect, and the change is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to the...it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang." The coloring, too, of these fragile and transient forms, infinite in its variety of marking and peculiarity... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1865 - 768 pages
...for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of tbe perfect insect, and the change is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to the...feathery existence, and it is as if a pearl opened and an angi-1 sang." The coloring, too, of these fragile and transient forms, infinite in its variety of marking... | |
 | 1883 - 456 pages
...its form always preserTes some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and it is but molting a skin ; but this egg appears to the eye like a separate...and it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang. 6. The nest which is to contain these fair things is a wondrous study also, from the coarse masonry... | |
 | 1885 - 456 pages
...its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and it is but molting a skin; but this egg appears to the eye like a separate...and it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang. 6. The nest which is to contain these fair things is a wondrous study also, from the coarse masonry... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 390 pages
...preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and 13* it is bat inouhing a skin ; bat this egg appears to the eye like a separate unit from...and it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang. Tho nest which is to contain these fair things is a wondrous study also, from the coarse masonry of... | |
 | 1902 - 732 pages
...to wake, to be alive, to drink in the sunshine and the breeze, to fill the air with blissful sound.1 'It is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang.' " THE great triumph of Horace Mann's life — the establishment of a normal school — was the direct result... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 296 pages
...less amazing, for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and it is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to...and it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang. — HIGGINSON: The Life of Birds. The topic is happily introduced by the first sentence. Afterward... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1900 - 418 pages
...less amazing, for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and it is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to...The nest which is to contain these fair things is a wonderful study also, from the coarse masonry of the Robin to the soft structure of the Hummingbird,... | |
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