Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1849 - Всего страниц: 384 |
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... Turkeys Wild Swans Tame Swans A Word to Anglers May CONTENTS . PART I. PAGE 13 23 38 77 90 116 126 143 156 171 176 PART II . Dogs 177 Cats 192 Apes and Monkeys 212 American Monkeys 226 Apes and Monkeys of the Old Continent 235 Elephants ...
... Turkeys Wild Swans Tame Swans A Word to Anglers May CONTENTS . PART I. PAGE 13 23 38 77 90 116 126 143 156 171 176 PART II . Dogs 177 Cats 192 Apes and Monkeys 212 American Monkeys 226 Apes and Monkeys of the Old Continent 235 Elephants ...
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... turkey or guinea - hen , which all the acuteness and ex- perience of the dairy - maid had failed to detect . Those were happy days : -but this is prosing ; and we proceed to fulfil our promise of passing rapidly in review those ...
... turkey or guinea - hen , which all the acuteness and ex- perience of the dairy - maid had failed to detect . Those were happy days : -but this is prosing ; and we proceed to fulfil our promise of passing rapidly in review those ...
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... turkey ; the third is similar to the last in the outside , but lined with long horse- hairs , wool , and feathers . " As a proof of the memory of this species , and something more , we may nention a fact recorded by Thomas Andrew Knight ...
... turkey ; the third is similar to the last in the outside , but lined with long horse- hairs , wool , and feathers . " As a proof of the memory of this species , and something more , we may nention a fact recorded by Thomas Andrew Knight ...
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... turkey smokes on every board . " GAY'S FABLES . MERCY on us ! turkey again ! We grant the infliction . All the world has supped full of turkey . We are aware that the martyr who reads these lines may have been very recently and very ...
... turkey smokes on every board . " GAY'S FABLES . MERCY on us ! turkey again ! We grant the infliction . All the world has supped full of turkey . We are aware that the martyr who reads these lines may have been very recently and very ...
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... Turkeys , because they are thought to have been first brought to us out of Turkey . " Ray knew better , and , in his Synopsis , indicated the native country of the bird . But the progress of a debate which has long been settled is not ...
... Turkeys , because they are thought to have been first brought to us out of Turkey . " Ray knew better , and , in his Synopsis , indicated the native country of the bird . But the progress of a debate which has long been settled is not ...
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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...