Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1847 - Всего страниц: 380 |
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... Saurians , Batrachians , and the like . " Dragons ? " Yes , dragons : not such as the small , living winged reptiles , that skim from place to place in search of their insect food , relying on their natural parachutes , constructed upon ...
... Saurians , Batrachians , and the like . " Dragons ? " Yes , dragons : not such as the small , living winged reptiles , that skim from place to place in search of their insect food , relying on their natural parachutes , constructed upon ...
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... Saurian forms have left no living representative upon the earth . Just one hundred years ago , Scheuchzer published his " Physica Sacra , " and favoured the world with an engraving of the remains of the " Homo diluvii testis . " Those ...
... Saurian forms have left no living representative upon the earth . Just one hundred years ago , Scheuchzer published his " Physica Sacra , " and favoured the world with an engraving of the remains of the " Homo diluvii testis . " Those ...
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... Saurians or Old - World dragons . What is all the blood of all the Howards to such ancestry ? The Edda , overflowing as it is with fiction , comprises no wilder tale than that of the " Jormungandr , " the ocean - snake or dragon alluded ...
... Saurians or Old - World dragons . What is all the blood of all the Howards to such ancestry ? The Edda , overflowing as it is with fiction , comprises no wilder tale than that of the " Jormungandr , " the ocean - snake or dragon alluded ...
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... Saurian type necessary for fitting the animal for its watery career - in other words , the special enaliosaurian characteristics - consist , as Professor Owen points out in his valuable " Report on British Fossil Reptiles , " in the ...
... Saurian type necessary for fitting the animal for its watery career - in other words , the special enaliosaurian characteristics - consist , as Professor Owen points out in his valuable " Report on British Fossil Reptiles , " in the ...
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... saurian , and ichthyic peculiarities . In its great length and its gradual diminution we perceive the saurian character ; its tegu- mentary nature , unsupported by osseous rays , bespeaks its affinity to the cetaceans ; while its ...
... saurian , and ichthyic peculiarities . In its great length and its gradual diminution we perceive the saurian character ; its tegu- mentary nature , unsupported by osseous rays , bespeaks its affinity to the cetaceans ; while its ...
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Стр. 303 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Стр. 303 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Стр. 69 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Стр. 89 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Стр. 305 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Стр. 138 - Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth ! Do but look on her hair, it is bright As Love's...
Стр. 83 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Стр. 143 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 84 - Alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram, Quae quondam in bustis aut culminibus desertis Nocte sedens, serum canit importuna per umbras ; Hanc versa in faciem, Turni se pestis ob ora 865 Fertque refertque sonans, clipeumque everberat alis.
Стр. 88 - Dame. Yes, I have brought, to help our vows, Horned poppy, cypress boughs, The fig-tree wild that grows on tombs, And juice that from the larch-tree comes, The basilisk's blood, and the viper's skin : And now our orgies let us begin.