Poems, journals, and essaysMacmillan, 1876 - 4 стор. |
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... matters too copious for an Epistle . I had like to have forgotten to add that Jack copied your verses , and sent them to yr Uncle John who commended them much you will be pleased to be commended by one that is the best performer and the ...
... matters too copious for an Epistle . I had like to have forgotten to add that Jack copied your verses , and sent them to yr Uncle John who commended them much you will be pleased to be commended by one that is the best performer and the ...
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... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never becoming slippery in frost or rain ; is excellent for dry ...
... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never becoming slippery in frost or rain ; is excellent for dry ...
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... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeo- men - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld . The exertions made by the horse and ...
... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeo- men - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld . The exertions made by the horse and ...
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... bats do , is a matter rather suspected than proved ; or do they not rather spend their time in deep and sheltered vales near S.H.Delsuchte THE FLYCATCHIL waters where insects are to be found 30 [ LETT . THE NATURAL HISTORY.
... bats do , is a matter rather suspected than proved ; or do they not rather spend their time in deep and sheltered vales near S.H.Delsuchte THE FLYCATCHIL waters where insects are to be found 30 [ LETT . THE NATURAL HISTORY.
Сторінка 41
... matter , declared that they also thought them mostly all females ; at least fifty to one . This extra- ordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through ...
... matter , declared that they also thought them mostly all females ; at least fifty to one . This extra- ordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of passage birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious district feed feet female fern-owl fieldfares flocks frequently frost garden Greatham ground Hanger hatched haunt HAWFINCH hedges hirundines Hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON house-martins inches insects June late legs LETTER Linnæus manner martins migration morning Motacilla natural history neighbour nest never Newton Valence night numbers observed owls perhaps ponds procured quadrupeds rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems seen SELBORNE sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange summer birds suppose Sussex swallow swifts Sylvia tail THOMAS PENNANT thrush titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter Wolmer Forest wonder Woodlark woods wren YELLOW WAGTAIL young
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Сторінка 276 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused 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 132 - 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...
Сторінка 216 - A GOOD ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as by their colours and shape; on the ground as well as on the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand. For, though it must not be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is somewhat in most genera at least, that at first sight discriminates them, and enables a judicious observer to pronounce upon them with some certainty.
Сторінка 117 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Сторінка 133 - I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices ; for as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Сторінка 198 - Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.
Сторінка 78 - What time the may-fly haunts the pool or stream; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale; To hear the clamorous...
Сторінка 179 - Every day in fine weather, in autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft: they will go off from your finger, if you will take them into your hand.
Сторінка 142 - But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day.