The Natural History of SelborneCassell, 1908 - 299 стор. |
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn bird of passage birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious DEAR SIR district dogs eggs feeding feet female fieldfares fields flocks frequently frost garden gentleman Gilbert White Greatham Gross-beak ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines hirundo house-martins hundred inches insects late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins mentioned migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never Newton Valence night observed oedicnemus owls parish perhaps ponds procured quadrupeds RAII RAII NOMINA rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels season seems seen SELBORNE sing snow soft soft-billed soon sort species spring stone stone curlew strange suppose Sussex swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vast village weather white-throat wild willow-wren wings winter Wolmer-forest wonder Woodlark woods young
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Сторінка 189 - Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl, So well converse, nor with the ox the ape; Worse then can man with beast, and least of all.
Сторінка 28 - 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 284 - 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 72 - NATURE'S works, the curious mind employ, Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms, a pleasing kind of pain Steals o'er the cheek, and thrills the creeping vein ! Each rural sight, each sound, each smell, combine ; The tinkling sheep-bell or the breath of kine ; The new-mown hay that scents the swelling breeze, Or cottage-chimney smoking through the trees. The chilling night-dews fall :— away, retire ! For see, the glow-worm lights her amorous fire ! J Thus, ere night's veil had half obscured...
Сторінка 195 - ... stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bees
Сторінка 64 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 45 - ... in the human head. When deer are thirsty they plunge their noses, like some horses, very deep under water while in the act of drinking, and continue them in that situation for a considerable time : but to obviate any inconveniency, they can open two vents, one at the inner corner of each eye, having a communication with the nose.
Сторінка 198 - Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten.
Сторінка 113 - And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies : At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings : So Mnestheus in the Dolphin cuts the sea ; And, flying with a force, that force assists his way.
Сторінка 207 - ... as if it had been her real offspring. This incident is no bad solution of that strange circumstance which grave historians as well as the poets assert, of exposed children being sometimes nurtured by female wild beasts that probably had lost their young. For it is not one whit more marvellous that Romulus and Remus, in their infant state, should be nursed by a she-wolf, than that a poor little sucking leveret should be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin.