The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne: & A Garden Kalendar, Том 1S. T. Freemantle, 1900 |
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne: & A Garden Kalendar, Том 1 Gilbert White Повний перегляд - 1900 |
The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne: & A Garden Kalendar, Том 1 Gilbert White Повний перегляд - 1900 |
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appear April autumn barrows of dung basons beans begin birds bloom border brace Cantaleupe-bed Cantaleupes car pd Celeri Celeriac cold colour come-up Common Sandpiper Coss-lettuce Cucumber-bed Cucumbers curious dry weather earth Endive feet field field-Garden frames frost fruit fruit-wall Gilbert White glass Grapes ground half hand-glasses heat HERBERT RAILTON Hirundo Hogsh hot dung hot-bed inches J. G. KEULEMANS June Kelsey Dung pd letter Linnæus loads of dung March melon-bed melons migration Motacilla nest New-Garden night numbers one-light pease Pennant Planted-out plants plot pots pretty Professor Bell radishes ring-ousels Ringmer rows of Celeri Savoys season seed Selborne shew showers Sir William Jardine snow Sowed a Crop species spinage spring stone-curlew Succade-bed Succades summer swallows thick THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees Vast rains vines Warbler weeks Willow Warbler wind winter wood Wood Warbler young
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Сторінка 174 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Сторінка 62 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms, and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Сторінка 100 - Amusive birds! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such baffled searches mock men's prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide!
Сторінка 79 - It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Сторінка 26 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 10 - These roads, running through the arable lands, are by the traffic of ages, and the fretting of water, worn down through the first stratum of our freestone, and partly through the second, so that they look more like water-courses than roads, and are bedded with naked rag for furlongs together. In many places they are reduced sixteen or eighteen feet beneath the level of the fields...
Сторінка 19 - Bank, saw with great complacency and satisfaction the whole herd of red deer brought by the keepers along the vale before her, consisting then of about five hundred head.
Сторінка 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Сторінка 10 - It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.
Сторінка 146 - I saw it distinctly more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.