THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON1900 |
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... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
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... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most arti- ficially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most arti- ficially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
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... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most arti- ficially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most arti- ficially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
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... nest in the Borough . And I myself , on the twenty - ninth of last October ( as I was travelling through Oxford ) , saw four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county - hospital . Now is it likely that these ...
... nest in the Borough . And I myself , on the twenty - ninth of last October ( as I was travelling through Oxford ) , saw four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county - hospital . Now is it likely that these ...
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... nest . A booby of a carter , finding them before they were able to fly , threw them down and destroyed them , to the regret of the owner , who would have been glad to have preserved such a curiosity in his rookery . I saw the birds ...
... nest . A booby of a carter , finding them before they were able to fly , threw them down and destroyed them , to the regret of the owner , who would have been glad to have preserved such a curiosity in his rookery . I saw the birds ...
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abound Andalusia appear April autumn BARRINGTON DEAR SIR Berne birds bishop of Winchester breed called canons cetero chaffinches church convent curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR DAINES BARRINGTON Selborne district domino ecclesie eciam eggs ejusdem ESQUIRE DEAR SIR feet female fieldfares firmiter injungendo mandamus flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White ground Gurdon haunt hirundines hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON house-martins hujusmodi insects Item July June Knights Templars late le ham LETTER LIME BLOSSOMS Linnaeus mandamus manner martins migration natural history nest never Newton Valence night observed Oestrus owls parish predicti Prioratus Priory Priory of Selborne procured quadrupeds quatinus quod rain remarkable remiges ring-dove ring-ousels season seems seen Selborne Seleburne showers sings snow species spring Stone curlew summer suppose swallow swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vestri village Vobis weather wings winter Wolmer Wolmer-forest wood wren young
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Seite 229 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 245 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Seite 278 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Seite 166 - This incident is no bad solution of that strange circumstance which grave historians as well as the poets assert, of exposed children being sometimes nurtured by female wild beasts that probably had lost their young. For it is not one whit more marvellous that Romulus and Remus, in their infant state, should be nursed by a she-wolf, than that a poor little sucking leveret should be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin. "... viridi fcetam Mavortis in antro Procubuisse lupam : geminos huic...
Seite 197 - They are particularly fond of kitchens and bakers' ovens, on account of their perpetual warmth. Tender insects that live abroad either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away the cold uncomfortable months in profound slumbers ; but these, residing as it were in a torrid zone, are always alert and merry : a good Christmas fire is to them like the heats of the dog-days. Though they are frequently heard by day, yet is their natural time of motion only in the night.
Seite 60 - While o'er the cliff th' awaken'd churn-owl hung, Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song ; While, high in air, and poised upon his wings, Unseen, the soft enamour'd woodlarkf sings : These, Nature's works, the curious mind employ, Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms, a pleasing kind of pain Steals o'er the cheek, and thrills the creeping vein ! Each rural sight, each sound, each smell combine ; The tinkling sheep-bell, or the breath of kine ; The new-mown hay that scents...
Seite 106 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 125 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Seite 52 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 83 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.