Scenes and Tales of Country Life: With Recollections of Natural HistoryJohn Murray, 1844 - 399 Seiten |
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... habits . When the kite was more numerous than it is at present , its appearance was hailed as the har- binger of fine weather . Bacon tells us that when it was seen flying aloft it portended fair and fine weather . See gentle brooks ...
... habits . When the kite was more numerous than it is at present , its appearance was hailed as the har- binger of fine weather . Bacon tells us that when it was seen flying aloft it portended fair and fine weather . See gentle brooks ...
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... habit of making observa- tions during their walks , must have seen , in the spring , numbers of the common Shrew - mouse lying dead in various directions . This circumstance has attracted the attention of many Naturalists , who , on ...
... habit of making observa- tions during their walks , must have seen , in the spring , numbers of the common Shrew - mouse lying dead in various directions . This circumstance has attracted the attention of many Naturalists , who , on ...
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... habit of carrying a gun , when they walk in their fields , in case they should see the earth in the act of being turned up by the moles ; when this is the case , the farmer fires at the spot , and thus many moles are killed in the ...
... habit of carrying a gun , when they walk in their fields , in case they should see the earth in the act of being turned up by the moles ; when this is the case , the farmer fires at the spot , and thus many moles are killed in the ...
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... and which serves as a place of deposit for worms . M. St. Hilaire , Le Court and other French Naturalists who have paid much attention to the habits of the mole , have not noticed this circumstance . An 36 THE MOLE .
... and which serves as a place of deposit for worms . M. St. Hilaire , Le Court and other French Naturalists who have paid much attention to the habits of the mole , have not noticed this circumstance . An 36 THE MOLE .
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... habit , when a very young man , of being constantly in attendance upon His late Majesty , George III . That the tree thus cut down , was , by many persons , considered to be Herne's Oak , there can be no doubt , and under this ...
... habit , when a very young man , of being constantly in attendance upon His late Majesty , George III . That the tree thus cut down , was , by many persons , considered to be Herne's Oak , there can be no doubt , and under this ...
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Seite 48 - 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...
Seite 288 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Seite 172 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Seite 88 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Seite 243 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Seite 100 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 19 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Seite 240 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Seite 238 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Seite 247 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...