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... building their pretty nests and rearing their young broods , they always appear to be , and doubtless are , in a state of supreme en- joyment ; they are at once working and playing , and are , as our readers no doubt think , most ...
... building their pretty nests and rearing their young broods , they always appear to be , and doubtless are , in a state of supreme en- joyment ; they are at once working and playing , and are , as our readers no doubt think , most ...
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... build neat nests ( generally of a cup shape ) , lay five or six eggs , and commonly rear two broods in a season . They do not migrate in large flocks , like the Swallows , but in small bodies , the males preceding the females several ...
... build neat nests ( generally of a cup shape ) , lay five or six eggs , and commonly rear two broods in a season . They do not migrate in large flocks , like the Swallows , but in small bodies , the males preceding the females several ...
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... and many other of our early pastoral and dramatic poets , as well as some of later times , who , like Pollok , make sorrow still the burden of its song : - - - 30 LOCALITIES FOR BUILDING . Minstrel of sorrow ! native.
... and many other of our early pastoral and dramatic poets , as well as some of later times , who , like Pollok , make sorrow still the burden of its song : - - - 30 LOCALITIES FOR BUILDING . Minstrel of sorrow ! native.
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... build in very public situations : thus we are told that a pair of these birds took up their residence in the Surrey Zoological Gardens , where , un- disturbed by the music or the firing on the nights of the grand pyrotechnic display ...
... build in very public situations : thus we are told that a pair of these birds took up their residence in the Surrey Zoological Gardens , where , un- disturbed by the music or the firing on the nights of the grand pyrotechnic display ...
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... Build at thy choice , or sing , by pool or fount , Who shall complain or call thee to account ? The wisest , happiest of our kind are they That ever walk content with Nature's way , God's goodness measuring bounty as it may ; For whom ...
... Build at thy choice , or sing , by pool or fount , Who shall complain or call thee to account ? The wisest , happiest of our kind are they That ever walk content with Nature's way , God's goodness measuring bounty as it may ; For whom ...
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Our Feathered Families: Birds of Song and Their Congeners which are Found in ... Henry Gardiner Adams Перегляд фрагмента - 1800 |
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appear approach beautiful beginning bill bird Blackbird breeding British brood brown build Bunting bush cage called close colour common confinement continued delight described early eggs feathers feed fields five four frequently gardens give grass green grey ground habits hand head hear heard hedge inches insects keep kind known Lark leaves length light lined Linnet lively male manner morning moss motion nature nest never night Nightingale notes observed pass perch plumage remarkable resembles says season seeds seems seen short side sing soft sometimes song songster Sparrow species spring strain summer sweet tail taken thee thou Thrush tree usually uttering visitant voice whole wild wings winter woods Wren yellow young
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Сторінка 30 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Сторінка 165 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Сторінка 83 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Сторінка 255 - THE GREEN LINNET BENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat ! And birds and flowers once more to greet. My last year's friends together.
Сторінка 27 - 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...
Сторінка 13 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Сторінка 132 - With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day, How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay.
Сторінка 160 - He put them in the basket, and tying an old handkerchief over it, he took them to the schoolmaster's house. Just as he arrived at the door, he saw the two little boys who had been setting the trap, and with alarm he asked them if they had caught any birds.
Сторінка 216 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father.
Сторінка 159 - THE BISHOP AND THE BIRDS. A BISHOP, who had for his arms two fieldfares, with the motto, " Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing...