Magazine of Natural History, Հատոր 6John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1833 |
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... close on one of my ears ; and , on turning another corner , would suddenly take it off : so that , what with the powerful torrent , mingled with the various noises of the distant mills and machinery , his glowing descrip- tions , and ...
... close on one of my ears ; and , on turning another corner , would suddenly take it off : so that , what with the powerful torrent , mingled with the various noises of the distant mills and machinery , his glowing descrip- tions , and ...
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... close to the door ; yet was no person stung or molested all the season . Von Os . Migration has long been absolutely established . I wonder it was ever doubted , particularly by such a man as White ; but he mild , amiable , and modest ...
... close to the door ; yet was no person stung or molested all the season . Von Os . Migration has long been absolutely established . I wonder it was ever doubted , particularly by such a man as White ; but he mild , amiable , and modest ...
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... close to the ship . There was no known land nearer than 300 miles . The swallow was seen first during a calm , skimming round the vessel with great velocity , and seemed to feed abundantly on the flies which hovered round the ship's ...
... close to the ship . There was no known land nearer than 300 miles . The swallow was seen first during a calm , skimming round the vessel with great velocity , and seemed to feed abundantly on the flies which hovered round the ship's ...
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... close to the oak we have since inscribed to our learned , gifted , and beloved friend Rylance . I was early a fond reader of poetry , and fancied them marvellous messengers just arrived from the enchanted regions of romance . Von Os . A ...
... close to the oak we have since inscribed to our learned , gifted , and beloved friend Rylance . I was early a fond reader of poetry , and fancied them marvellous messengers just arrived from the enchanted regions of romance . Von Os . A ...
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... close this night's CHIT - CHAT with healths to our brother cullers of simples , and our really earnest request that they will Von Os.say that you have plaguily too much ornithology in it . Dov . Ornithology ! - -why , my dear fellow ...
... close this night's CHIT - CHAT with healths to our brother cullers of simples , and our really earnest request that they will Von Os.say that you have plaguily too much ornithology in it . Dov . Ornithology ! - -why , my dear fellow ...
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Էջ 147 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Էջ 396 - SILENT nymph, with curious eye ! Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's lonely van, Beyond the noise of busy man ; Painting fair the form of things, While the yellow linnet sings ; Or the tuneful nightingale Charms the forest with her tale ; Come, with all thy various hues, Come, and aid thy sister Muse...
Էջ 356 - INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY. Intended to convey Practical Knowledge of the Science, and comprising the most important recent discoveries ; with explanations of the facts and phenomena which serve to confirm or invalidate various Geological Theories. By ROBERT BAKEWELL.
Էջ 235 - The patriot's virtue and the poet's song, Still, as the tide of ages rolls away, Shall charm the world, unconscious of decay. Yes ! there are hearts, prophetic HOPE may trust, That slumber yet in uncreated dust, Ordain'd to fire th...
Էջ 200 - There shall he love, when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears, To watch the brightening roses of the sky, And muse on Nature with a poet's eye ! — And when the sun's last splendour lights the deep, The woods, and waves, and murmuring winds asleep; When fairy harps th...
Էջ 200 - Hesperian planet hail, And the lone cuckoo sighs along the vale, His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell, Where mouldering piles and forests intervene, Mingling with darker tints the living green ; No circling hills his ravish'd eye to bound, Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, blazing all around.
Էջ 65 - General System of Gardening and Botany; containing a complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known; with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, Mode of Culture, and their Uses in Medicine and Domestic Economy.
Էջ 142 - ... times the whole of their subsistence. Here, then, if my data be correct, there is the enormous quantity of 468,000 Ibs., or 209 tons, of worms, insects, and their larvae, destroyed by the rooks of a single rookery in one year.
Էջ 160 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.