| Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 Seiten
...giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your...led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? * The angler's May-fly, the Ephemera vulgata, Linn, comes forth from its aurelia state, and emerges... | |
| Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 Seiten
...ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat; Whence your...prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide. ' The reader curious on this subject will not consult a better work than the second volume of Lyell's... | |
| James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 Seiten
...known as British birds. CHAPTER VII. AQUATIC FOWL. " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages, and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, And GOD of NATOTIF.... | |
| James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 Seiten
...as British birds. 131 CHAPTER VII. AQUATIC FOWL. ' Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat t When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, And GOD of NATUBE... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 Seiten
...giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your...deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-sheltered let us stray, Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape... | |
| Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 Seiten
...ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds !— say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your...pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, * The zoology... | |
| Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 Seiten
...ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your...bench, leaf shelter' d, let us stray, * The angler's May-fly, the ephemera vulgata, Linn., comes forth from ita aurelia state, and emerges out of the water... | |
| 1833 - 632 Seiten
...(Concluded from page 206.^ II. BIRDS THAT ARE MIGRATORY. " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such bafned searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 Seiten
...ring, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ? Whence your...led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head 1 Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, — The God of nature is your secret guide ! While... | |
| British land birds - 1857 - 318 Seiten
...the whole species is preserved in the same manner. " Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature... | |
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