Magazine of Natural History, Հատոր 6John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1833 |
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... frequently play off more jets of joyance in a momentary con- versation , than we could pump into a day's discourse , - Dov . felt intense delight while listening to my descrip- tions of scenery , after any of my long summer excursions ...
... frequently play off more jets of joyance in a momentary con- versation , than we could pump into a day's discourse , - Dov . felt intense delight while listening to my descrip- tions of scenery , after any of my long summer excursions ...
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... frequent that hung before your dining - room windows ? Dov . A few may frequent both : but , in general , I am cer- tain all birds have their particular beats , or haunts ; and very rarely intrude on those of others ; when the invaded ...
... frequent that hung before your dining - room windows ? Dov . A few may frequent both : but , in general , I am cer- tain all birds have their particular beats , or haunts ; and very rarely intrude on those of others ; when the invaded ...
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... frequent chatter of the guillemots , the loud notes of the auks , the screams of the herons , together with the deep periodical croak of the cor- vorants ( and the boding voice of the raven ) , which serves as a bass to the rest , have ...
... frequent chatter of the guillemots , the loud notes of the auks , the screams of the herons , together with the deep periodical croak of the cor- vorants ( and the boding voice of the raven ) , which serves as a bass to the rest , have ...
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... frequent examples of this monstrosity would be found among the tamed or domesticated rabbits , which are often entirely fed on soft food . I am , Sir , yours , & c . Guernsey , Nov. 1. 1830 . FREDERICK C. LUKIS . THE head of a wild ...
... frequent examples of this monstrosity would be found among the tamed or domesticated rabbits , which are often entirely fed on soft food . I am , Sir , yours , & c . Guernsey , Nov. 1. 1830 . FREDERICK C. LUKIS . THE head of a wild ...
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... frequently bristling up its wings and feathers , and by hissing . As a proof , if further proof were needed , how much " the natural timidity of birds is lessened during incuba- tion , " I may mention , that the tomtit had ( as I was ...
... frequently bristling up its wings and feathers , and by hissing . As a proof , if further proof were needed , how much " the natural timidity of birds is lessened during incuba- tion , " I may mention , that the tomtit had ( as I was ...
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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.