The Natural History of Selborne: With A Naturalist's Calendar & Additional ObservationsScott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... feeding . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this contingency . Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
... feeding . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this contingency . Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
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... feed in the brooks and meadows ; returning again with the dawn of the morning . Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is perfectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
... feed in the brooks and meadows ; returning again with the dawn of the morning . Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is perfectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
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... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
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... feed . The adroitness it showed in shear- ing off the wings of the flies , which were always rejected , was worthy of observation , and pleased me much . Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when ...
... feed . The adroitness it showed in shear- ing off the wings of the flies , which were always rejected , was worthy of observation , and pleased me much . Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when ...
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... feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 . The mention of haws puts me in mind that there is a ... feed- ing on the berries of the yew tree , which answered to the description of the Merula torquata , or ring ...
... feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 . The mention of haws puts me in mind that there is a ... feed- ing on the berries of the yew tree , which answered to the description of the Merula torquata , or ring ...
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Сторінка 60 - 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 285 - 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 248 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden; however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Сторінка 109 - As, when the dove her rocky hold forsakes, Roused in a fright, her sounding wings she shakes ; The cavern rings with clattering ; out she flies, 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 284 - ... alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rustcoloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of . rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Сторінка 135 - 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 187 - Even great disparity of kind and size does not always prevent social advances and mutual fellowship. For a very intelligent and observant person lias assured me that, in the former part of his life, keeping but one horse, he happened also on a time to have but one solitary hen. These two incongruous animals spent much of their time together in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these two sequestered individuals. The...
Сторінка 143 - ... much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.
Сторінка 24 - 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 336 - Resounds the living surface of the ground: Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclin'd, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.