Advanced Reading Book: Literary and ScientificThomas Constable and Company, 1860 - 432 стор. |
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... surface of the water , each bird exhibits alternately a dark or a light appearance to the observer , as the upper or the under side of its body happens to be turned towards him . " The change of appearance thus adverted to , is the ...
... surface of the water , each bird exhibits alternately a dark or a light appearance to the observer , as the upper or the under side of its body happens to be turned towards him . " The change of appearance thus adverted to , is the ...
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... surface of the body , and the tail feathers , are of the purest white ; while the beak , the legs , and the feet , are of ver- milion red . Hence the term " Red - legged gull " is not less correct than that of " Black - headed ...
... surface of the body , and the tail feathers , are of the purest white ; while the beak , the legs , and the feet , are of ver- milion red . Hence the term " Red - legged gull " is not less correct than that of " Black - headed ...
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... surface - swim- ming fishes , the fry of fish , the soft - bodied animals that live on the green oozy banks where the grass - wrack grows , and the minute creatures that the tide flings upon the beach . So numerous are the black ...
... surface - swim- ming fishes , the fry of fish , the soft - bodied animals that live on the green oozy banks where the grass - wrack grows , and the minute creatures that the tide flings upon the beach . So numerous are the black ...
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... surface of the water . The great body of sea - fowl appeared so much engrossed with their predatory pursuits , as neither to attend to the report of the gun , nor notice the approach of the hooker , until the boat's bow- sprit seemed ...
... surface of the water . The great body of sea - fowl appeared so much engrossed with their predatory pursuits , as neither to attend to the report of the gun , nor notice the approach of the hooker , until the boat's bow- sprit seemed ...
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... surface of the body . From this peculiarity , all animals in which it is manifested are placed in one group , and receive a scientific name ( Gasteropoda ) , which literally means " belly - footed . " This large class of molluscs is ...
... surface of the body . From this peculiarity , all animals in which it is manifested are placed in one group , and receive a scientific name ( Gasteropoda ) , which literally means " belly - footed . " This large class of molluscs is ...
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Сторінка 365 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Сторінка 362 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Сторінка 370 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Сторінка 408 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere.
Сторінка 377 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple...
Сторінка 366 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Сторінка 360 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Сторінка 388 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii.
Сторінка 363 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention...
Сторінка 388 - 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...