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There came a thoughtful man Searching Nature's secrets, far and deep; From a fissure in a rocky steep He withdrew a stone, o'er which there ran Fairy pencilings, a quaint design, Veinings, leafage, fibers clear and fine, And the fern's life lay in every line! So, I think, God hides some souls away, Sweetly to surprise us, the last day."
We have seen some kinds of marble, where the veinings happened to be unusually multiplied, in which human faces, figures, processions, or fragments of natural scenery seemed absolutely illimitable, under the endless variations or inversions of the order, according to which they might be combined and grouped. Something analogous takes effect in reviewing the remote parts of history.
The design of this latter, of a kind of purple marble, shot through with white veinings, was in the same style as the design of the silk hangings. In its midst was a bronze escutcheon, bearing an undecipherable monogram and a Latin motto. Andirons of brass, nearly six feet high, flanked the hearthstone.
Having nobody to tell her story to, having, as she said in her verses, no musical instrument to laugh and cry with her, nothing, in short, but the language of pen and pencil, all the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages, as those of a fresh leaf are transferred to the blank sheets which inclose it.
Having nobody to tell her story to, having, as she said in her verses, no musical instrument to laugh and cry with her, nothing, in short, but the language of pen and pencil, all the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages as those of a fresh leaf are transferred to the blank sheets which inclose it.
Further, dark veinings of singular shapes unmistakably interrupted the coronal light, and bordered brilliant prominences, reminding us of certain "black lines" traced by Swift across the "anvil protuberance" August 7, 1869. In type the corona of 1896 reproduced that of 1886, as befitted its intermediate position in the solar cycle.
'It is not a twelvemonth yet, although it seems ten years agone, since I blew the downy globe to learn the time of day, or set beneath my chin the veinings of the varnished buttercup, or fired the fox-glove cannonade, or made a captive of myself with dandelion fetters; for then I had not very much to trouble me in earnest, but went about, romancing gravely, playing at bo-peep with fear, making for myself strong heroes of gray rock or fir-tree, adding to my own importance, as the children love to do.
There were sudden glimpses of icy peaks, cut diamonds in the sun, seen for a moment, then swallowed up by stealthily creeping white clouds, or caressed by them with a benediction in passing. Thin streaks of cascades on precipitous rocks made silver veinings in ebony. Side valleys opened unexpectedly, and one knew from hearsay that gold mines were hidden there.
This is a beautiful marble of feathery purple grey veinings on a creamy white ground.
Each tiny thing is worthy of the scientist's minute attention; he counts the articulations which make up the claws of an insect, and knows the veinings of its most delicate wings; he finds interesting details where the ordinary eye would not linger for a moment. St.
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