The Natural History of SelborneCarey and Lea, 1832 - 342 من الصفحات |
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... April , 1752. Being of an unambitious temper , and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery , he early fixed his residence in his native village , where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations , and ...
... April , 1752. Being of an unambitious temper , and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery , he early fixed his residence in his native village , where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations , and ...
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... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catch- ing the hedges , have sometimes been communica- ted to the underwoods , woods , and ...
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catch- ing the hedges , have sometimes been communica- ted to the underwoods , woods , and ...
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... April , in the first fine weather , they come troop- ing all at once into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this ...
... April , in the first fine weather , they come troop- ing all at once into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this ...
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... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved , in all re- spects , a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than ...
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved , in all re- spects , a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than ...
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... April . The I must not omit to tell you ( as you have been so lately on the study of reptiles ) that my people , every now and then , of late , draw up with a bucket of water from my well , which is 63 feet deep , a large black warty ...
... April . The I must not omit to tell you ( as you have been so lately on the study of reptiles ) that my people , every now and then , of late , draw up with a bucket of water from my well , which is 63 feet deep , a large black warty ...
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الصفحة 157 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
الصفحة 290 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
الصفحة 340 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
الصفحة 252 - 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. " viridi foetam Mavortis in antro Procubuisse lupam : geminos huic ubera...
الصفحة 121 - The powers of its wing were wonderful, exceeding, if possible, the various evolutions and quick turns of the swallow genus. But the circumstance that pleased me most was, that I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished...
الصفحة 21 - ... sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though...
الصفحة 20 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry; the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazard* Zoologist, i.
الصفحة 37 - 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.
الصفحة 85 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest. Some of the more ignorant and superstitious...
الصفحة 207 - ... and then are conducted to the dead leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, they are attended with great assiduity, and may then be called perchers. In a day or two more they become flyers, but are still unable to take their own food ; therefore they play about near the place where the dams are hawking for flies : and when a mouthful is collected, at a certain signal given, the dam and the nestling advance, rising towards each other, and meeting at an angle ; the young one all...