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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. A DISQUISITION ON JELLY-FISH. Those living Jellies which the flesh inflame, Fierce as a nettle, and from that its name; Some in huge masses, some that you may bring lu 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 blighter where they flow. Poets have rarely deigned to sing the praises of the Jelly-fish, which, perhaps, is one reason why there are so few popular errors to correct concerning them. It is somewhat strange, certainly, but the bay-leaves and the professor's gown seldom do well together. The silk is almost sure to suffer. Perhaps it is that that fine frenzy in which the poet's eye is wont to roll has something to do with the matter. But, be that as it may, the fact is clear, and we seldom even expect to find correct science done into verse. In the passage quoted above, however, the amiable author of The Borough has given us a noteworthy exception to the rule; and, in the compass of a few brief lines, has fmely epitomized the leading points of Jelly-fish economy. Bear with us, good reader, the while we discourse to you for a brief space on these curious samples of ocean confectionery. No one that has paid an occasional visit to the sea-coast can be wholly unacquainted with the Jelly-fish. They are amongst the most familiar objects to be seen in rambling along the shore; and, after violent winds, may often be met with, thrown upon the beach by the fury of the waves. In the calm bright days of summer, numbers of the commoner kinds may be seen gently flapping their way through the still water skirting the shore, their delicate and graceful forms alternately contracting and dilating as t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217015059
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217015050
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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