The Architecture of BirdsCharles Knight, 1833 - Всего страниц: 392 |
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... original workmanship . The bird , in fact , always uses its own body to determine the pro- portions of the gallery - the part from the thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle . It does not trace this out as we would do , by ...
... original workmanship . The bird , in fact , always uses its own body to determine the pro- portions of the gallery - the part from the thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle . It does not trace this out as we would do , by ...
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... original account of this instrument observed in the grub of the glow - worm ( Lampyris noctiluca ) . " In an excursion for the purposes of natural his- tory to the woods of Dartford , in Kent , the 14th of last March , I found an insect ...
... original account of this instrument observed in the grub of the glow - worm ( Lampyris noctiluca ) . " In an excursion for the purposes of natural his- tory to the woods of Dartford , in Kent , the 14th of last March , I found an insect ...
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... original state of wildness and freedom , in which such sociality may serve some important purpose . The sheep of mountainous countries , where they are in a state of comparative wildness , though un- confined by fences , like those in ...
... original state of wildness and freedom , in which such sociality may serve some important purpose . The sheep of mountainous countries , where they are in a state of comparative wildness , though un- confined by fences , like those in ...
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... original to the sedge - bird , and that we might , with equal jus- tice , accuse the swallow and the sky - lark of borrow- ing from it . There are several American birds , however , much more celebrated as mockers or imitators than our ...
... original to the sedge - bird , and that we might , with equal jus- tice , accuse the swallow and the sky - lark of borrow- ing from it . There are several American birds , however , much more celebrated as mockers or imitators than our ...
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... original , for which reason the Mexicans termed it the bird of four hundred tongues ( Cencontlatotli ) . These writers also mention its mingling action with its song , accompanying the notes with measured move- ments expressive of ...
... original , for which reason the Mexicans termed it the bird of four hundred tongues ( Cencontlatotli ) . These writers also mention its mingling action with its song , accompanying the notes with measured move- ments expressive of ...
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Стр. 288 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Стр. 287 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain...
Стр. 48 - Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; and say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar...
Стр. 17 - I saw it distinctly more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.
Стр. 288 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all...
Стр. 330 - ... together on a trial of skill, each striving to produce his utmost effect, so perfect are his imitations. He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates ; even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mates, or dive with precipitation into the depths of thickets, at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrow-hawk.
Стр. 329 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises pre-eminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Стр. 212 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Стр. 287 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have...
Стр. 214 - The acquitted parents see their soaring race, And, once rejoicing, never know them more. High from the summit of a craggy cliff. Hung o'er the deep, such as amazing frowns On utmost Hilda's shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young.