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Страница 5 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Страница 19 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Страница 203 - The location chosen is the square at the apex of the angle formed by the confluence of the two rivers — the Ohio and the Great Kanawha — on which the Virginian army was encamped at the beginning of the battle, and where its honored dead, who fell in the struggle, were buried. This is high land and contains about two and a half acres.
Страница 36 - Thy waving crest, the mark of high command, With gold, and pearl, and brilliant gems adorn'd". Now if the crystal stream delight thee more, Sportsman! lead on, where through the reedy bank The' insinuating waters, filter'd, stray In many a winding maze. The wild-duck there Gluts on the fattening ooze, or steals the spawn Of teeming shoals, her more delicious feast.
Страница 150 - There is a second floating bridge of recent date connecting the east gate with the foreign settlement. Now this city, though probably at least twelve hundred years old, is not Old Ningpo. The original city lay at some distance from the present site and I have seen the grasscovered heavings of the ancient walls. The old name was Yangchow ($U ^H) or Yungtung (fa JK) " bursting eastwards," a name which it still bears in certain documents.
Страница 31 - MALLARD, — may be readily distinguished from the Grey Lag Goose by their bright orange bill and legs, and their mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, to say nothing of their very conspicuous white face and the broad black bars which cross the belly, though the...
Страница 63 - But learn we might, if not too proud to stoop To quadruped instructors, many a good And useful quality, and virtue too, Rarely exemplified among ourselves. Attachment never to...
Страница 32 - GOOSEBERRY and Blyth has said that these crosses are very abundant in India. The true home of the species is in eastern Siberia or Mongolia. It is distinguished by its long smooth neck, marked dorsally by a chocolate streak. The reclaimed form is usually distinguished by the knob at the base of the bill, but the evidence of many observers shows that this is not found in the wild race. Of this bird there is a perfectly white breed. We have next to mention a very curious form...
Страница 82 - You may kill, or you may miss, But at all times think of this- ' "All the pheasants ever bred Won't repay for one man dead.
Страница 53 - ... the system in general. But there are parts of those laws which have reference to the skin alone, and it is my present purpose to separate these as much as possible from the rest, that their importance may be more prominently seen. It is thus with the subject of exercise. Well-directed exercise...