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... were a jelly-fish great and good, To svima and f waner away, Oh, what a jelly-fish I would be ! To no matter where, andI no matter why, But I can't be a jelly-fish, e'en if I would, Like yonder pale jelly-fish out in the bay, And so, as a jelly ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... affectation pervading the whole, the author has yet to learn the process of manufacturing verses. This is the soliloquy of a jelly-fish ( ?? What joys had I? What vague delight, What dim titillation my fondness won? What first thrilled me? What first gave ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SLEEPY SKETCHES.*

... he observes Englishmen eat, drink, work, and play as machines rather than men, and, as far as sensa- tion goes, are mere jelly-fish; all brain work is irksome to men living in a constant vapour-bath, and the chief advantage of such a life is the satis- ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... trickling down the pen and diluting the ink and pickling the words, and making the wet paper as pleasant to write to as a jelly-fish, and as appetizing to sleep as a salt-lick. A frog is had beet as a fellow in green tights ; a ragged boy looks as if ...

ANOTHER LIFE OF SHELLEY

... shows us that these wonders are not confined to the surface, but that the depths of the sea gleam with luminous creatures, jelly-fishes, and echinoderms. Wonder grows upon us when we try to realize the appearance presented by the gigantic Cyanea and the Pyrosoma ...

A HIGHLAND PARISH

... for the person wuhotu it is 10'V fashionable to describe as the sociologist. Ordinary zoological clhat about field-mice, jelly-fish, and other assorted animal inhabitants likev.-ise makeC ip a considerable proportion of the volume. Nor is remote anttrohology ...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER

... this perfectly true history of the oyster and the star-fish. Mr. Wood says nothing about the too-affectionate habits of the jelly-fish, which sometimes attaches itself to unfortunate bathers. Only the other day we heard of a lady receiving a surprising shock ...

MAMMALS

... history; one man studies reptiles, another chooses to work at spiders, while a third will make a speciality of corals or of jelly-fishes. And when the specialist on corals comes to write, say, on horses, he finds it necessary to call in the aid of another ...

CHINA AT THE FISHERIES EXHIBITION

... the Chinese who mre clever enough to utilise the jelly-fish for the table, and even they only contrive to turn an honest penny out of the blubbering organism by an ingenious system of drying. Jelly-fish catlet, or haunch, has yet to be aohievedt even in ...

Magazines

... Mr. Romanes's on the beginnings of nerve-tissue as first found in the ascending series of animal life in the Medusoe, or jelly-fishes, are both singularly able papers, but, as may be imagined, of a highly technical character.-Mr. Walter Pater gives us a ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1731 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS

... thing of that sort. One famous investigation, for instance, was the discovery that all the higher animals were got from the Jelly-fish by pulling it out lengthways and pinching its mouth aperture in at the middle. Another triumph of the art was that schematic ...

AMUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH

... charming style; Miss Alice Aynsley Cooke maintains her high reputation, and scores with the new I song The cockroach and the jellyfish ; Mr Charles I Angelo is good as Valorous; and Messrs J. W. Hand- ley, Sidney Vincent, P. Howard Sturgess, George Fearoley ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1363 | Page: 21 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture