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... ground devouring the carcase , the rest hovering above it . I rode within twenty yards of them ; one of the largest of the birds was standing with one foot on the ground , and the other on the horse's body , with a display of muscular ...
... ground devouring the carcase , the rest hovering above it . I rode within twenty yards of them ; one of the largest of the birds was standing with one foot on the ground , and the other on the horse's body , with a display of muscular ...
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... ground : this was preserved by M. Bonpland for a con- siderable time , as a memorial of the circumstance . The bird did not die of its wounds until half an hour had elapsed , THE KING VULTURE . * THE royal name which this bird bears is ...
... ground : this was preserved by M. Bonpland for a con- siderable time , as a memorial of the circumstance . The bird did not die of its wounds until half an hour had elapsed , THE KING VULTURE . * THE royal name which this bird bears is ...
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... ground . The odour of their flesh is precisely that of the carrion on which they feed , and even their skins retain it for many years . When carrion is deficient. THE KING VULTURE AND ITS PREY . THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE . *
... ground . The odour of their flesh is precisely that of the carrion on which they feed , and even their skins retain it for many years . When carrion is deficient. THE KING VULTURE AND ITS PREY . THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE . *
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... ground , for a hundred yards around it , was black with carrion crows ; many sat on the tops of sheds , fences , and houses , within sight ; sixty or eighty on the opposite side of a small inn . I counted , at one time , two hundred and ...
... ground , for a hundred yards around it , was black with carrion crows ; many sat on the tops of sheds , fences , and houses , within sight ; sixty or eighty on the opposite side of a small inn . I counted , at one time , two hundred and ...
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... ground , towards its foul repast , to be joined by others of its species . Not only does it banquet on carrion , but it spreads devastation far and wide among the peaceful tenants of the fold , and the wild but timid inhabitants of the ...
... ground , towards its foul repast , to be joined by others of its species . Not only does it banquet on carrion , but it spreads devastation far and wide among the peaceful tenants of the fold , and the wild but timid inhabitants of the ...
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Стр. 103 - 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. 164 - While birds, and butterflies, and flowers, Make all one band of paramours, Thou, ranging up and down the bowers, Art sole in thy employment: A Life, a Presence like the Air, Scattering thy gladness without care, Too blest with any one to pair; Thyself thy own enjoyment.
Стр. 103 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many Nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping Sound more sweet than all — Stirring the air with such an harmony, That should you close your eyes, you might almost Forget it was not day!
Стр. 164 - BENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat, And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together...
Стр. 235 - Thrice welcome, darling of the spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my schoolboy days I listened to; that cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush', and tree, and sky.
Стр. 101 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Стр. 142 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Стр. 334 - Part loosely wing the region; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Стр. 8 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Стр. 245 - I would have broke mine eye-strings, crack'd them, but To look upon him, till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle ; Nay, followed him, till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat to air; and then Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.