Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1849 - Всего страниц: 384 |
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... wings and tail , glisten- ing with white , and the buoyant gaiety of his action , arresting the eye , as his song most irresistibly does the ear . He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy - he mounts and descends as his song swells or ...
... wings and tail , glisten- ing with white , and the buoyant gaiety of his action , arresting the eye , as his song most irresistibly does the ear . He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy - he mounts and descends as his song swells or ...
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... wings , and bristled feathers , clucking to protect its injured brood . The barking of the dog , the mewing of the cat , the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow , follow , with great truth and rapidity . He repeats the tune taught him by ...
... wings , and bristled feathers , clucking to protect its injured brood . The barking of the dog , the mewing of the cat , the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow , follow , with great truth and rapidity . He repeats the tune taught him by ...
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... wing from the carpal joint , but extending it considerably , and availing itself of the whole expanse , just as it ... wings and legs was used . The bird was , we doubt not , at this time capturing the fresh - water mollusca and insect ...
... wing from the carpal joint , but extending it considerably , and availing itself of the whole expanse , just as it ... wings and legs was used . The bird was , we doubt not , at this time capturing the fresh - water mollusca and insect ...
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... wings , and beating his breast against the wires , panting for one - one only - upward flight into the free air . To delude him into the recollection that there are such places as the fields , which he is beginning to forget , they cut ...
... wings , and beating his breast against the wires , panting for one - one only - upward flight into the free air . To delude him into the recollection that there are such places as the fields , which he is beginning to forget , they cut ...
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... wing than the Sky - lark , and will sometimes continue in the air , soaring to a great height , singing , still singing , for an hour together . It begins to breed early in the season . Colonel Montagu found the nest , which is not ...
... wing than the Sky - lark , and will sometimes continue in the air , soaring to a great height , singing , still singing , for an hour together . It begins to breed early in the season . Colonel Montagu found the nest , which 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...