The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... showers ; No storms to startle , and few clouds to shade , The even path his christian virtues made . Yet not alone he lived ! Soft voices near , With whisper'd sweetness , soothed the good man's ear ; He heard them murmuring through ...
... showers ; No storms to startle , and few clouds to shade , The even path his christian virtues made . Yet not alone he lived ! Soft voices near , With whisper'd sweetness , soothed the good man's ear ; He heard them murmuring through ...
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... d sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry aspect scowls : down rush the showers , And float the deluged paths , and miry fields . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . IN A SERIES OF POEMS .
... d sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry aspect scowls : down rush the showers , And float the deluged paths , and miry fields . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . IN A SERIES OF POEMS .
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... showers that they are tempted to set out on their travels , which they defer till those fall . Frogs are as yet in their tadpole state ; but in a few weeks our lanes , paths , fields , will swarm for a few days with myriads of those ...
... showers that they are tempted to set out on their travels , which they defer till those fall . Frogs are as yet in their tadpole state ; but in a few weeks our lanes , paths , fields , will swarm for a few days with myriads of those ...
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... preened to resist so much wet . Windy , and particularly windy weather with heavy showers , they dislike , and on such days withdraw , and are scarcely ever seen . There is a circumstance respecting the colour of swifts , SWIFTS . 193.
... preened to resist so much wet . Windy , and particularly windy weather with heavy showers , they dislike , and on such days withdraw , and are scarcely ever seen . There is a circumstance respecting the colour of swifts , SWIFTS . 193.
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... shower of cobwebs falling from very ele- vated regions , and continuing , without any interruption , till the close of the day . These webs are not single filmy threads , floating in the air in all directions , but perfect flakes or ...
... shower of cobwebs falling from very ele- vated regions , and continuing , without any interruption , till the close of the day . These webs are not single filmy threads , floating in the air in all directions , but perfect flakes or ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young