The Natural History of Selborne, Band 1Cassell, 1893 |
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appears April autumn birds of passage Blackcap breed British Zoology called Cassell's chaffinches Cheap Edition cock colour common cuckoo curious DEAR SIR,-The district doubt E. W. HORNUNG eggs feeding female fieldfares flocks fly-catcher frost gentleman Gilbert White ground haunt hirundines Hirundo house-martins Illustrated inches insects late le Ham LETTER Linnæan Linnæus manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned migration natural history naturalist neighbour neighbourhood nest never night numbers observed parish perhaps procure quadrupeds R. L. STEVENSON RAII RAII NOMINA reason redbreast reed-sparrow remarkable remiges reptile ring-dove ring-ousels says Scopoli seems seen SELBORNE shot sing soft-billed birds song species spring STANLEY WEYMAN stock-dove stone-curlew summer birds Sussex swallow kind tail THOMAS PENNANT titlark titmouse trees vast village Vols weather Whinchat Whitethroat wild willow-wren wing winter Wolmer Forest wonder woodcocks Woodlark woods wren young
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Seite 79 - 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 15 - February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.
Seite 89 - WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time the may-fly haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale...
Seite 24 - But he was mistaken: for I myself have seen cottages on the verge of this wild district, whose timbers consisted of a black hard wood, looking like oak, which the owners assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits, or some such instruments: but the peat is so much cut out, and the moors have been so well examined, that none has been found of late.
Seite 90 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy Dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill Cricket cry ; To see the feeding Bat glance through the wood ; To catch the distant falling of the flood ; 93 While o'er the cliff th...
Seite 158 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers...
Seite 162 - Your partiality towards my small abilities persuades you, I fear, that I am able to do more than is in my power : for it is no small undertaking for a man unsupported and alone to begin a natural history from his own autopsia...
Seite 9 - London, in latitude 51, and near midway between the towns of Alton and Petersfield. Being very large and extensive it abuts on twelve parishes, two of which are in Sussex, viz. Trotton and Rogate. If you begin from the south and proceed westward the adjacent parishes are Emshot, Newton Valence, Faringdon, Harteley Mauduit, Great Ward le ham, Kingsley, Hedleigh, Bramshot, Trotton, Rogate, Lysse, and Greatham.
Seite 166 - Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than they can possibly be acquainted with : every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer.
Seite 90 - 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 woodlark 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...