The Minstrelsy of the Woods, Or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign BirdsHarvey and Darton, 1832 - 227 страници |
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... sometimes tempted to make , in the eagerness of their pur- suit after scientific knowledge - deeds of cruelty which no discoveries can justify . The eagle can quench his thirst in the blood of his victims , and therefore can pass many ...
... sometimes tempted to make , in the eagerness of their pur- suit after scientific knowledge - deeds of cruelty which no discoveries can justify . The eagle can quench his thirst in the blood of his victims , and therefore can pass many ...
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... sometimes into battle ; and would not part with them , even to procure their own liberty when they were taken prisoners . The truth is , to resign his hawk was one of the most dishonourable actions of which a nobleman could be guilty ...
... sometimes into battle ; and would not part with them , even to procure their own liberty when they were taken prisoners . The truth is , to resign his hawk was one of the most dishonourable actions of which a nobleman could be guilty ...
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... birds , mice , & c . which he encounters in his circuit . There is a large white owl , the snowy owl , found in many of the northern parts of Europe , and sometimes , though rarely , seen in England and 28 THE TAWNY OWL .
... birds , mice , & c . which he encounters in his circuit . There is a large white owl , the snowy owl , found in many of the northern parts of Europe , and sometimes , though rarely , seen in England and 28 THE TAWNY OWL .
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S. Waring. and sometimes , though rarely , seen in England and Scotland . This bird the Tartars hold in great reverence , in consequence of an adventure which they say befell their great leader Jenghis Khan . That prince , with a small ...
S. Waring. and sometimes , though rarely , seen in England and Scotland . This bird the Tartars hold in great reverence , in consequence of an adventure which they say befell their great leader Jenghis Khan . That prince , with a small ...
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... Sometimes sweeping down and around my fire , uttering a loud and sudden Waugh O ! Waugh O ! sufficient to have startled a whole garrison . He has other noctur- nal solos no less melodious ; one of which very strikingly resembles the ...
... Sometimes sweeping down and around my fire , uttering a loud and sudden Waugh O ! Waugh O ! sufficient to have startled a whole garrison . He has other noctur- nal solos no less melodious ; one of which very strikingly resembles the ...
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abode ACCIPITRES amid amusing beautiful Bewick birds of prey black stork blackcap bright bullfinch cage capercaile captive cheer colour Common Sandpiper cries cuckoo Cuvier Dartford Warbler delight dwell eagle earth eggs falcon falconry favourite feathers feed female fern-owl flies flight flowers follow forest gentle goat-sucker green green woodpecker grove habits hatched hath haunts hear heard insects JAVA SPARROW little bird little creatures mate morning Motacilla mountain naturalist nature nest never night nightingale notes nuthatch o'er observed ORDER PASSERES ornithologists peculiar petrel plaintive pleasant plumage ptarmigan race raven rest robin rock round season seems seen Selborne sing singular soft song sound sparrow species spot spring stork stormy stormy petrel strains summer swallow sweet thee thou thrush tree tribe voice wanderer warblers watch wave whip-poor-will white stork wild wind wing winter woodlarks woodpecker woods wren young
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Страница 13 - She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
Страница 204 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Страница 19 - Kilda's * shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire. Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Страница 145 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Страница 62 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Страница 204 - Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Страница 164 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, 'Whispering new joys to the mild ocean— Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Страница 152 - ... wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore. When this ceremony is over, with the last gleam of day, they retire for the night to the deep beechen woods of Tisted and Ropley.
Страница 104 - ... idea of the moaning of the largest goatsucker in Demerara. Four other species of the goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or four yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Who-are-you, whowho-who-are-you." Another bids you, " Workaway, work-work-work-away.
Страница 98 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest.