The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History

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John Van Voorst, 1873

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Стр. 3482 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round; The haughtiest breast its wish might bound, Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found To Nature and to me so dear.
Стр. 3678 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."—Proverbs of Solomon, vi. 6—8,
Стр. 3648 - '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 chaunt, and
Стр. 3575 - fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." This said, the honest herdsman strode before: The musing monarch pauses at the door: The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look, and having seen him, dies; So closed for ever faithful Argus' eyes!
Стр. 3574 - on a distant shore! Oh, had you seen him, vigorous, bold and young, Swift as a stag, and as a lion strong; Him no fell savage on the plain withstood, None 'scaped him bosomed in the gloomy wood; His eye how piercing, and his scent how true, To wind the
Стр. 3574 - at Ulysses' gate ? His bulk and beauty speak no vulgar praise; If, as he seems, he was in better days, Some care his age deserves; or was he prized For worthless beauty ? therefore now despised; Such dogs and men there are, mere things of state; And always cherished by their friends, the great.' ' Not Argus so,
Стр. 3673 - Shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beamed ? To such as see thee not my words were weak, To those who gaze on thee what language could they speak
Стр. 3701 - I believe that something more is included ; and that propinquity of descent—the only known cause of the similarity of organic beings—is the bond, hidden as it is by various degrees of modification, which is partially revealed to us by our classifications.
Стр. 3672 - world with his Theory of Tittlebats, as calm and unmoved as the deep waters of the one on a frosty day or a solitary specimen of the other in the inmost recesses of an earthen jar.
Стр. 3575 - at the door: The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look, and having seen him, dies; So closed for ever faithful Argus' eyes!

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