 | David Hosack, John Wakefield Francis - 1814 - 614 Seiten
...his song most irresistibly does the ear. Me sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away : and as...with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recal his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain." While thus exerting himself, a by-stander... | |
 | 1813 - 496 Seiten
...song irresistibly engages the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy; he mounts and descends I as his song swells' or dies away ; and, as my friend Mr. Barlram has beautifully expressed it, "he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover... | |
 | 1826 - 952 Seiten
...his soag moat irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic eestacv— he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away : and, as my friend Sir Bartram has beautifully expressed it — ' He bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 Seiten
...his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; and, as...with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recal his "very soul, expired in the last elevated strain."* While thus exerting himself, a bystander... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 Seiten
...ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or die* away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has beautifully...bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to * The reader is referred to our author's figure of this bird, which is one of the most spirited drawings... | |
 | 1819 - 424 Seiten
...ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; und, as my friend Mr. Bartram hag beautifully expressed it, " He bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, aa if to recover or recaí his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain." While 'exerting hiuiself,... | |
 | 1826 - 376 Seiten
...mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, as it has been beautifully expressed, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as...soul, expired in the last elevated strain." While exerting himself, a bystander, destitute of sight, would suppose that the whole feathered tribe had... | |
 | 1837 - 604 Seiten
...and, * Harrington. t Infessores — Perching birds. I Falco musicus of Uundin. ( Orpheus polyglottus. as my friend Mr. Bartram has beautifully expressed...with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recal his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain.' While thus exerting himself, a bystander,... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 Seiten
...mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; which has thus been beautifully expressed. " He bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as...soul, expired in the last elevated strain." While exerting himself, a by-stander, destitute of sjg'ht, would suppose that the whole featheri:d tribe... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 Seiten
...mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, as it has been beautifully expressed, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recal his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain." While exerting himself, a bystander, destitute... | |
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Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recall his very soul, which expired in the last elevated strain. 
