Wild Scenes and Song-birdsLeavitt and Allen, 1858 - 347 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 15
... habits , tastes , and mode of life best , and that , the Chinaman , who has built his house in the same way ( so far ... habit of altering the construction and material ; and he knows why , clearly enough , that in a hot climate it would ...
... habits , tastes , and mode of life best , and that , the Chinaman , who has built his house in the same way ( so far ... habit of altering the construction and material ; and he knows why , clearly enough , that in a hot climate it would ...
Σελίδα 18
... habits of these birds under all these singular changes of plumage , are ascertained to be precisely the same , the argument no longer holds good . ” Of whatever impositions upon " the sex , " " the Parson ” may have been guilty , during ...
... habits of these birds under all these singular changes of plumage , are ascertained to be precisely the same , the argument no longer holds good . ” Of whatever impositions upon " the sex , " " the Parson ” may have been guilty , during ...
Σελίδα 25
... habits . Did not every American open his door and his heart to the wearied traveller , and af- ford him food , comfort and rest , I would at once give up the argument ; but when I know by experience , the generosity of the people , I ...
... habits . Did not every American open his door and his heart to the wearied traveller , and af- ford him food , comfort and rest , I would at once give up the argument ; but when I know by experience , the generosity of the people , I ...
Σελίδα 26
... habits , under the force of cir- cumstances , is only paralleled by another fact which , though not mentioned either in any of the books of Natural History , I know to be strictly true . It refers to an occasional mode of Hybernating ...
... habits , under the force of cir- cumstances , is only paralleled by another fact which , though not mentioned either in any of the books of Natural History , I know to be strictly true . It refers to an occasional mode of Hybernating ...
Σελίδα 28
... habit of all this family of Gallinaciæ is rather to run and roost in little squads or flocks . Whence this differ- ence in the habits of the same bird . Who knows ? whence the difference ? This is the question ! Ah , Now your ...
... habit of all this family of Gallinaciæ is rather to run and roost in little squads or flocks . Whence this differ- ence in the habits of the same bird . Who knows ? whence the difference ? This is the question ! Ah , Now your ...
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Σελίδα 161 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 47 - Thou art ! directing, guiding all, Thou art ! Direct my understanding then to Thee ; Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart Though but an atom midst immensity, Still I am something, fashioned by Thy hand ! I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land...
Σελίδα 35 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Σελίδα 171 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Σελίδα 299 - The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his gra?p ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Σελίδα 172 - Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again. O blessed Bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place; That is fit home for Thee ! 1804.
Σελίδα 86 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Σελίδα 153 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Σελίδα 298 - ... coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading; clamorous crows and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention.
Σελίδα 150 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.