A Popular Natural History of Quadrupeds and Birds1849 |
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... resemblance to the king of beasts , and might with much more propriety be styled a panther . Those who wish to compare the puma with the lion may gratify their curiosity by an examination of these animals in the gardens of the Regent's ...
... resemblance to the king of beasts , and might with much more propriety be styled a panther . Those who wish to compare the puma with the lion may gratify their curiosity by an examination of these animals in the gardens of the Regent's ...
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... resembles a fleshy plate covered with hooks . This enables the animal to scrape every atom of flesh from the bones of slain beasts . Something of this rough- ness is perceptible in the projections on the tongue of the domestic cat ; but ...
... resembles a fleshy plate covered with hooks . This enables the animal to scrape every atom of flesh from the bones of slain beasts . Something of this rough- ness is perceptible in the projections on the tongue of the domestic cat ; but ...
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... resemble , in most of their habits , each other ; the smaller varieties being only less dreaded because less strong . This animal is easily distinguished from the tiger by the ten lines of rose - shaped clusters of spots ; whilst the ...
... resemble , in most of their habits , each other ; the smaller varieties being only less dreaded because less strong . This animal is easily distinguished from the tiger by the ten lines of rose - shaped clusters of spots ; whilst the ...
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... resembles that of a cat ; with this difference , however , that it never , as in the latter animal , degenerates into malicious cunning or wanton mischief . Their character , indeed , seems to be entirely free from that sly and ...
... resembles that of a cat ; with this difference , however , that it never , as in the latter animal , degenerates into malicious cunning or wanton mischief . Their character , indeed , seems to be entirely free from that sly and ...
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... resemble those on the leopard , but are much larger ; and they who wish to note the differences in the markings of the two animals , may indulge their curiosity , and extend their information , by an inspection of those in the zoologi ...
... resemble those on the leopard , but are much larger ; and they who wish to note the differences in the markings of the two animals , may indulge their curiosity , and extend their information , by an inspection of those in the zoologi ...
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Seite 314 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburden his full soul Of all its music...
Seite 44 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Seite 313 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...
Seite 336 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Seite 313 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit...
Seite 12 - Finding that the few indifferent hounds we had made little impression on the enemy, they divided themselves into two or three parties, and rode round the jungle, firing into the spot where the dogs were barking round him — but without effect. At length, after some hours spent in thus beating about the bush, the Scottish blood of some of my countrymen began to get impatient, and three of them announced their determination to march in and beard the lion in his den, provided three of the...
Seite 11 - Hottentots on foot : commencing from the spot where the horse was killed, they followed the spoor through grass and gravel and brushwood, with astonishing ease and dexterity, where an inexperienced eye could discern neither footprint nor mark of any kind,— until at length, we fairly tracked him into a large bosch, or straggling thicket of brushwood and evergreens, about a mile distant. The next object was to drive him out of this retreat, in order to attack him in a close phalanx, and with more...
Seite 308 - ... to fell them in such a manner that in their descent they might bring down several others; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.
Seite 314 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many Nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song...
Seite 44 - Or shake the murdering savages away. Rapacious, at the mother's throat they fly, And tear the screaming infant from her breast. The godlike face of man avails him nought.