1854.] Maephail is full of good reading. We have graphic reminiscences of a voyage front the Cape to Calcutta, ..

... proceeds charmingly. Abel Log is too much spun. Agreeable variety is furnished by articles on Miss Mitford, Tasso, the Jellyfish, &c. The poems have a degree of simplicity in structure and diction which is too rare in Hogg. The West of' Scotland Magazine ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1854
Newspaper: Commonwealth (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 808 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... with an adjective, as if it were wful for a substantive to be a bachelor, and tedious ings, in Sturm’s dullest manner, on “jelly-fishes,” “Irish bards,” “the twofold pleasures of nature,” &c., &c. We are privately of opinion that the editor’s scissors must ...

Literary Notices

... they, in common with the rest of Europe, are at pre- Hoao’s Instructor, for October, has a very learned disquisition on Jelly-Fish, and an interesting paper on the early Mythology and Poetry of the British isles, which, in the remote ages of antiquity ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... Preparation of Seaweeds and oth Plants for the Herbarium.' The Lectures will' be interspersed, with notices of ZOO- PHYTES, 'JELLY-FISHES, STAR-FISHES, SHELL- FISHES, &c., and will be Illustrated, by Drazoi~igs Spe- tt5C)U, and the Microscope. Single Tickets ...

Yoxs. ZELGER. 131.0.ir0a GREGORIO. Rum FORMES

... ion L and in Preparation of Sammie and other Plante forth, Herbarium. Lectures will be interspersed with of ZOOPHYTES, JELLY-FISHES, STARFISHES, SHRLI.-FIEHES, he., and will be illustrated by Drawings, Specimens, Microscope. Single Tickets for the Course ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1855
Newspaper: Commonwealth (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 695 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... that we speak of it as shapeless. In the same sense, the endlessly altering, undulating sea-Medusw are popularly called jelly-fishes. The other familiar amorphous bodies which I might name are, on the one hand, such soft substances as the curd of milk ...

THE BILL OF THE CHURCH

... Flame) Sept. 1856. Haying seen it stated in the public papers that tbe Premier was visiting the neighbouring watering-place, Jellyfish. sending over my butler to ascertain, quietly, how this was. and where his Lordship was staying, and found it was at the ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1856
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1613 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERAHY NOTICEt-, SERIALS FOR OCTOBER

... bucket was sufficiently stocked, and we sailed homewards, skimming the surface with a net in the hope of capturing some jellyfish, but none appeared. Wcought have been in high spirits; but whatever consolation may have bten in the thought of the bucket ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1856
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1917 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE PERIODICALS

... our bucket was sufficiently stocked, and sailed homewards, skimming the surface with a net in the hope of capturing some jelly-fish, hut none appeared. ought to nave been in high spirits but whatever consolation may have been in the thought of the bucket ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1856
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3530 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... Conservatism soon yields to il- lusions of a more definite and genial character. But let us awake and grapple tvitli this huge jelly-fish, this nebulous atmosphere, this dissolving view of something that neither is, nor wvas, nor is ever to be. There is nothing ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4285 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Till. CONSI UVATIVK PARTY

... and Conservatism soon yields illusions more d finite and genial character. Hut let u* awake and , grapple with this huge jelly-fish, this nebulous atmosphere, this dissolving view of something that neither is. ii,»r was. nor ever he. There nothing like ...

Published: Tuesday 28 October 1856
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1486 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... unparalleled, a fickle swain, irreclaimable toper, a sinner given sack and uncleanness ; though had no more firmness than jelly-fish, and no more consistency even of outward aspect than a chameleon; though had the vanity of a Scotch peacock, which we take ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1857
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3900 | Page: 2 | Tags: none