Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1849 - Всего страниц: 384 |
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... less than a fortnight : the scholar afterwards sang three parts in four nightingale , and the rest of his song was what the bird - catchers call " rubbish , " or no particular note whatever . Bechstein observes that nearly all birds ...
... less than a fortnight : the scholar afterwards sang three parts in four nightingale , and the rest of his song was what the bird - catchers call " rubbish , " or no particular note whatever . Bechstein observes that nearly all birds ...
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... less brilliant , and the prisoner daily deludes himself that the mate which he is doomed never to see is come to visit him . Most affectionate in disposition , it seems absolutely necessary to the Goldfinch's existence that he should ...
... less brilliant , and the prisoner daily deludes himself that the mate which he is doomed never to see is come to visit him . Most affectionate in disposition , it seems absolutely necessary to the Goldfinch's existence that he should ...
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... a thrill of pleasure . The songsters themselves seem hardly less Pheasants , common fowls , & c . † Grouse , partridges , & c . Blackbirds and thrushes . pleased when they find all right ; and while they MIGRATORY SINGING BIRDS . 39.
... a thrill of pleasure . The songsters themselves seem hardly less Pheasants , common fowls , & c . † Grouse , partridges , & c . Blackbirds and thrushes . pleased when they find all right ; and while they MIGRATORY SINGING BIRDS . 39.
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... less volume , strength , and expression , it is more pure , easy , and flute - like in its tones , and its song is more varied , smooth , and delicate . It sings also for a much longer period , both when wild and in confinement , its ...
... less volume , strength , and expression , it is more pure , easy , and flute - like in its tones , and its song is more varied , smooth , and delicate . It sings also for a much longer period , both when wild and in confinement , its ...
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... less than twenty - four lines of words - some of them rare sesquipedalities — as expressive of the nightingale's song . " Twenty - four different strains or couplets , " says he , " may be reckoned in the song of a fine nightingale ...
... less than twenty - four lines of words - some of them rare sesquipedalities — as expressive of the nightingale's song . " Twenty - four different strains or couplets , " says he , " may be reckoned in the song of a fine nightingale ...
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Стр. 37 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Стр. 299 - 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. 78 - 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. 80 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Стр. 91 - 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. 97 - 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. 299 - 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, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Стр. 148 - Polish swan to be fifty-seven inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail...