 That rivulet of smooth silver — how does it flow, think you ? It literally rows on the earth with every scale for an oar ; it bites the dust with the ridges of its body. Watch it when it moves slowly — a wave, but without wind...  The Works of John Ruskin - 362 ページJohn Ruskin 著 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 624 ページ
...body. Watch it, when it moves slowly : — A wave, but without wind ! a current, hut with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...another, or some forward, and the rest of the coil backward ; but all with the same calm will and equal way — no contraction, no extension ; one soundless,... | |
 | 1880 - 460 ページ
...for an oar. Watch it when it moves slowly ! A wave, but without wind ! A current, but with no fall ! All the body moving at the same instant, yet some...another, or some forward, and the rest of the coil backward : but all with the same calm will and equal way : one soundless, ceaseless march of sequent... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1883 - 230 ページ
...its body. Watch it, when it moves slowly:—A wave, but without wind! a current, but with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...backwards; but all with the same calm will and equal way—no contraction, no extension ; one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings, and spectral... | |
 | 1894 - 790 ページ
...its body. Watch it, when it moves slowly:—a wave, but without wind ! a current, but with no fall! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...backwards; but all with the same calm will and equal wayCo contraction, no extension ; one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings, and spectral procession... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 314 ページ
...its body. Watch it when it moves slowly : a wave, but without a wind! a current, but with no fall! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...backwards ; but all with the same calm will and equal way—no contraction, no extension; one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings, and spectral procession... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1906 - 882 ページ
...account of the mechanism of movement does not suggest the swiftness or the beauty of what Ruskin calls "one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings,...dissolution in its fangs, dislocation in its coils." r.ao. ll/.C. FIG. 299. — Heart and associated blood vessels of snake. <-., Common carotid artery... | |
 | John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - 1903 - 378 ページ
...body. Watch it, when it moves slowly : — A wave, but without wind ! a current, but with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...— no contraction, no extension ; one soundless, ceaseless march of sequent rings, and spectral procession of spotted dust, with dissolution in its... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 520 ページ
...its body. Wateh it when it moves slowly — a wave, but without wind ! a current, but with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...contraction, no extension ; one soundless, causeless mareh of sequent rings, and spectral procession of spotted dust, with dissolution in its fangs, dislocation... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 ページ
...its body. Watch it when it moves slowly — a wave, but without wind ! a current, but with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...backwards ; but all with the same calm will and equal wayno contraction, no extension ; one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings, and spectral procession... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 ページ
...its body. Watch it when it moves slowly — a wave, but without wind ! a current, but with no fall ! all the body moving at the same instant, yet some...procession of spotted dust, with dissolution in its fangs and dislocation in its coils. Startle it — the winding stream will become a twisted arrow; the wave... | |
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