Birds, Частина 294Religious Tract Society, 1842 - 159 стор. |
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... THRUSH - THE WOODPECKER - THE WREN - THE GOLDEN - CRESTED WREN - THE RUBY - THROATED HUMMING - BIRD -THE RAVEN - THE MAGPIE - THE JAY - THE SWALLOW - THE ROOK . SPRING is a season of great activity . No sooner have the trees put forth ...
... THRUSH - THE WOODPECKER - THE WREN - THE GOLDEN - CRESTED WREN - THE RUBY - THROATED HUMMING - BIRD -THE RAVEN - THE MAGPIE - THE JAY - THE SWALLOW - THE ROOK . SPRING is a season of great activity . No sooner have the trees put forth ...
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... - dove roves , The path of men to shun it ; The hazel - bush o'erhangs the thrush , The spreading thorn the linnet . THE ROBIN . Thus , every kind their pleasure find. The Golden - crested Wren . Nest of the Golden - crested Wren . 4.
... - dove roves , The path of men to shun it ; The hazel - bush o'erhangs the thrush , The spreading thorn the linnet . THE ROBIN . Thus , every kind their pleasure find. The Golden - crested Wren . Nest of the Golden - crested Wren . 4.
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... thrush is beautiful : - Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush , That overhung a mole - hill large and round , I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise , while I drank the sound With joy and , often an ...
... thrush is beautiful : - Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush , That overhung a mole - hill large and round , I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise , while I drank the sound With joy and , often an ...
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... thrush can readily procure worms in a lawn or in a meadow ; it therefore lines its nest with clay or cow- dung . The hen of the rook seldom leaves her nest , and is fed during the time she sits on her eggs by her mate ; and the dwelling ...
... thrush can readily procure worms in a lawn or in a meadow ; it therefore lines its nest with clay or cow- dung . The hen of the rook seldom leaves her nest , and is fed during the time she sits on her eggs by her mate ; and the dwelling ...
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... thrush , for example , has a bright blue ground colour , with irregular spots and blotches of black ; but the latter have been pre- served from the action of acid , which has entirely dis- solved the former : and this is only one ...
... thrush , for example , has a bright blue ground colour , with irregular spots and blotches of black ; but the latter have been pre- served from the action of acid , which has entirely dis- solved the former : and this is only one ...
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Сторінка 2 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Сторінка 27 - The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Сторінка 16 - 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...
Сторінка 16 - ... 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...
Сторінка 19 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Сторінка 22 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Сторінка 14 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Сторінка 24 - Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes, when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird...
Сторінка 11 - Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a mole-hill large and round, I heard, from morn to morn, a merry Thrush Sing hymns to sunrise...