The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern DressWilliam Blackwood, 1870 - 147 էջ |
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The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress William John Courthope Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1873 |
The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress William John Courthope Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
The Paradise of Birds: An Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress William John Courthope Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1873 |
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Aristophanes beak bear bids bill biped BIRD OF PARADISE BLACKBIRD blackcap breast breeding bright brood chaffinch chick chicken CHORUS claws clime cockchafer crimes crop cuckoo dark deesh delicate Dinornis dwell earth Egg-Shell enter Exit SOUL extinct Fancy feathers Gilbert White goose Greek hatched hear heard heart Herodotus hither human iceberg JACKDAW JURY Kluk-uk-uk lapwing LARK laws Limbo LINNET lives Love lovers mankind MARESNEST merry nests never night NIGHTINGALE Numbers o'er obsolete once Ornithorhyncus PARADISE OF BIRDS Pee-weet penny press pigeons poet Polar Pole praise pre-Adamite Purgatory race rhymes Roc's Egg Rook round Salisbury Plain Seven-Dials shell silence Sinbad sing snow song SOUL OF BIRDCATCHER SOUL OF COOK SOUL OF LADY Sparrows species stars swallows sweet things thou thought THRUSH tongue unhatched wind WINDBAG windy wingless wings words ye birds Πόθεν τε τοῖς
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Էջ 106 - We wish to declare how the Birds of the air all high Institutions designed, And holding in awe, art, science, and law, delivered the same to mankind. To begin with: of old Man went naked and cold whenever it pelted or froze, Till we showed him how feathers were proof against weathers ; with that he bethought him of hose. And next it was plain that he in the rain was forced to sit dripping and blind, While the reed-warbler swung in a nest with her young, deep-sheltered and warm from the wind. So our...
Էջ 62 - ... demanding the release of one of his servants who had been detained there, but in reality to examine into the circumstances of the country, and the truth of the wonderful things told of it. When they returned to the presence of his majesty, they brought with them (as I have heard) a feather of the rukh, positively affirmed to have measured ninety spans, and the quill part to have been two palms in circumference. This surprising exhibition afforded his majesty extreme pleasure, and upon those by...
Էջ 108 - And men in their words acknowledge the birds' Erudition in weather and star ; For they say, " 'Twill be dry — the swallow is high ;" Or, " Rain — for the chough is afar.
Էջ 62 - The people of the island report that at a certain season of the year, an extraordinary kind of bird, which they call a rukh, makes its appearance from the southern region. In form it is said to resemble the eagle, but it is incomparably greater in size; being so large and strong as to seize an elephant with its talons, and to lift it into the air, from •whence it lets it fall to the ground, in order that when dead It may prey upon the carcase.
Էջ 50 - The largest of these walls is about equal in circumference to the city of Athens ; the battlements of the first circle are white, of the second black, of the third purple, of the fourth blue, of the fifth bright red. Thus the battlements of all the circles are painted with different colours ; but the two last have their battlements plaited, the one with silver, the other with gold.