Gleanings in Natural History: Second Series to which are Added Some Extracts from the Unpublished Mss. of the Late Mr. White of SelborneJ. Murray, 1834 - 321 |
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... never without an encreased admiration of its beauty . It has more branches projecting from its stem than I ever saw before , and they are so disposed , and spread themselves so high and so wide , that the effect of the whole is ...
... never without an encreased admiration of its beauty . It has more branches projecting from its stem than I ever saw before , and they are so disposed , and spread themselves so high and so wide , that the effect of the whole is ...
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... never yet saw it in the act of pro- curing its food , a circumstance which almost makes me think that he feeds late at night only , or very early in the morning , when moths are most abun- dant . That it is insectiverous there can , I ...
... never yet saw it in the act of pro- curing its food , a circumstance which almost makes me think that he feeds late at night only , or very early in the morning , when moths are most abun- dant . That it is insectiverous there can , I ...
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... never seen on the lawn , but they were observed to hop fearlessly about it on Sundays when no reports of guns were ever heard at , or near , the place . They seemed in fact to be aware that , on that day , no danger need be apprehended ...
... never seen on the lawn , but they were observed to hop fearlessly about it on Sundays when no reports of guns were ever heard at , or near , the place . They seemed in fact to be aware that , on that day , no danger need be apprehended ...
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... never could be prevailed upon to leave the house . It happened , however , that there was a fast day , and on that occasion the farmer put on his best clothes and set off for church . The dog followed him , as usual , for a short dis ...
... never could be prevailed upon to leave the house . It happened , however , that there was a fast day , and on that occasion the farmer put on his best clothes and set off for church . The dog followed him , as usual , for a short dis ...
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... never yet been able to ascertain that the monkies on the rock of Gibraltar have any means of pro- curing water during the dry and hot weather which prevails there , and it is supposed that the food upon which they subsist is of a dry ...
... never yet been able to ascertain that the monkies on the rock of Gibraltar have any means of pro- curing water during the dry and hot weather which prevails there , and it is supposed that the food upon which they subsist is of a dry ...
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Strona 120 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
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Strona 294 - How delightful in the early spring, after the dull and tedious time of winter, when the frosts disappear and the sunshine warms the earth and waters, to wander forth by some clear stream...
Strona 130 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Strona 111 - How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful as the consecrated roof » Re-echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The chequer'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick, And darkening and enlightening, as the leaves Play wanton, every moment, every spot.
Strona 277 - Blest power of sunshine ! — genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.
Strona 76 - ... the loveliest forms of nature ; winter is unknown to him, and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa : he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure. Even the beings selected for his prey are poetical, beautiful, and transient.
Strona 102 - The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays...
Strona 108 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Strona 92 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.