Birds and bird-life, by F.T. Buckland and other naturalists |
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Σελίδα 11
... passing overhead : these various cries form a natural concert of music , most grateful to the ear of the sportsman , and the lover of Nature in her wildest moods . As the partridge is the natural wild bird that inhabits the dry arable ...
... passing overhead : these various cries form a natural concert of music , most grateful to the ear of the sportsman , and the lover of Nature in her wildest moods . As the partridge is the natural wild bird that inhabits the dry arable ...
Σελίδα 18
... passes comprehension , unless on account of the bird being so eminently a creature of bounding habit and exu- berant spirits . Thence the " skylarking " of sailors , an amusement occasionally conceded to them , that of climbing to the ...
... passes comprehension , unless on account of the bird being so eminently a creature of bounding habit and exu- berant spirits . Thence the " skylarking " of sailors , an amusement occasionally conceded to them , that of climbing to the ...
Σελίδα 38
... passing suddenly and vanishing as through a perspective glass . When you shut the doors of this grotto , it becomes on the instant , from a luminous room , a camera - obscura , on the walls of which all the objects of the river , hills ...
... passing suddenly and vanishing as through a perspective glass . When you shut the doors of this grotto , it becomes on the instant , from a luminous room , a camera - obscura , on the walls of which all the objects of the river , hills ...
Σελίδα 43
... passing northward as far as the borders of the arctic circle , to breed , and thence returning southward to winter , regulated by the severity of the season . In America , the emigrations of the wild swan are bounded by Hudson's Bay THE ...
... passing northward as far as the borders of the arctic circle , to breed , and thence returning southward to winter , regulated by the severity of the season . In America , the emigrations of the wild swan are bounded by Hudson's Bay THE ...
Σελίδα 45
... passes from the neck into the chest without any convolution , and the number of ribs is eleven on each side . 2. The wild swan , or hooper ( Cygnus ferus ) . We find the bill of the present species destitute of protuberance at its base ...
... passes from the neck into the chest without any convolution , and the number of ribs is eleven on each side . 2. The wild swan , or hooper ( Cygnus ferus ) . We find the bill of the present species destitute of protuberance at its base ...
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 72 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Σελίδα 146 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Σελίδα 204 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Σελίδα 144 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
Σελίδα 26 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds...
Σελίδα 22 - Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Σελίδα 234 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Σελίδα 19 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Σελίδα 25 - 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.
Σελίδα 29 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.