The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and IllustratedJohn van Voorst, 1871 - 321 Seiten |
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... Swallow's Herb and Swallow's Stone . - The " Ostridge . " — " Eating Iron " -Bating with the Wind . The Pelican . - Feeding its Young with its Blood . - Explanation of the Fable .-- Former Existence of a Pelican in the English Fens ...
... Swallow's Herb and Swallow's Stone . - The " Ostridge . " — " Eating Iron " -Bating with the Wind . The Pelican . - Feeding its Young with its Blood . - Explanation of the Fable .-- Former Existence of a Pelican in the English Fens ...
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... Aldrovandus ) The Barnacle Goose Tree From Gerard Barnacles . From Nature . Kingfisher and Swallows 247 248 250 253 99 270 " " 271 Pelican and Young : 298 INTRODUCTION . BEFORE proceeding to examine the ornithology of Shakespeare PAGE.
... Aldrovandus ) The Barnacle Goose Tree From Gerard Barnacles . From Nature . Kingfisher and Swallows 247 248 250 253 99 270 " " 271 Pelican and Young : 298 INTRODUCTION . BEFORE proceeding to examine the ornithology of Shakespeare PAGE.
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... swallow is three times that of a swan ; and the life of an eagle is three times that of a swallow ; and the life of a serpent is three times that of an eagle ; and the life of a raven is three times that of a serpent ; and the life of a ...
... swallow is three times that of a swan ; and the life of an eagle is three times that of a swallow ; and the life of a serpent is three times that of an eagle ; and the life of a raven is three times that of a serpent ; and the life of a ...
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... swallowed what they had taken up . Hence it is evident that they drink . " In Persia , Tartary , India , and other parts of the East , the eagle was formerly , and is still to a certain extent , used for hunting down the larger birds ...
... swallowed what they had taken up . Hence it is evident that they drink . " In Persia , Tartary , India , and other parts of the East , the eagle was formerly , and is still to a certain extent , used for hunting down the larger birds ...
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... swallow . * Hence also the name Philomel , which is often applied by the poets to this bird . 66 " Philomel , with melody , Sing your sweet lullaby . " Song - Midsummer Night's Dream , Act ii . Sc . 2 . By this , lamenting Philomel had ...
... swallow . * Hence also the name Philomel , which is often applied by the poets to this bird . 66 " Philomel , with melody , Sing your sweet lullaby . " Song - Midsummer Night's Dream , Act ii . Sc . 2 . By this , lamenting Philomel had ...
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alluded allusion amongst ancient animal appears Barnacle beak bird BRITISH caliver called choughs cock colour cormorants crow cuckoo curious Cymbeline daye paied doth doubt eagle eggs England falcon falconry Falstaff feathers fish flight Foolscap 8vo fowl frequently goose goshawk gull habits Hamlet hath hawk Henry heron iiij Julius Cæsar King Lear kite lark Lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth mentioned Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream NATURAL HISTORY naturalist nest nightingale noticed observed Ornithology partridge passage peacock pece pelican pheasants pigeons poet portrait Post 8vo prey raven referred Richard Richard II Roman Romeo and Juliet Royal 8vo says Second Edition Shakespeare Shakespeare's day Shrew sing song sparrow speaking species sport swallow swan Taming Tempest thee thou Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night viij vols vulture wild wild-fowl wings Winter's Tale woodcock word wren young
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Seite 3 - What have we here ? a man or a fish ? dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John.
Seite 10 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Seite 135 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Seite 95 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit ; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Seite 143 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 168 - Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Seite 18 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Seite 152 - And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Seite 129 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record
Seite 132 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.