The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and The Naturalist's CalendarFraser [& Company], 1834 |
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... colours glows , th ' unconscious swain , With vacant eye , gazes on the divine Phenomenon , gleaming o'er the illumined fields , Or runs to catch the treasures which it sheds . Not so the sage : inspired with pious awe , He hails the ...
... colours glows , th ' unconscious swain , With vacant eye , gazes on the divine Phenomenon , gleaming o'er the illumined fields , Or runs to catch the treasures which it sheds . Not so the sage : inspired with pious awe , He hails the ...
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... colour and grain to the Bath stone , and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent chimneypieces are worked from it , of much closer and finer grain than Portland ; and rooms are floored with it ; but ...
... colour and grain to the Bath stone , and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent chimneypieces are worked from it , of much closer and finer grain than Portland ; and rooms are floored with it ; but ...
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... colour , and softer nature , which the inhabitants called fir ; but , upon a nice examination , and trial by fire , I could discover nothing resinous in them ; and therefore rather suppose that they were parts of a willow , or alder ...
... colour , and softer nature , which the inhabitants called fir ; but , upon a nice examination , and trial by fire , I could discover nothing resinous in them ; and therefore rather suppose that they were parts of a willow , or alder ...
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... colour of the pupils and the irides . The most unusual birds I ever observed in these parts were a pair of hoopoes , ( upupa , ) which came , several years ago , in the summer , and frequented an ornamented piece of ground , which joins ...
... colour of the pupils and the irides . The most unusual birds I ever observed in these parts were a pair of hoopoes , ( upupa , ) which came , several years ago , in the summer , and frequented an ornamented piece of ground , which joins ...
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... colours ; the belly and lower jaws becoming a deep crimson , and the back sometimes a cream colour , but generally a fine green ; and the whole appearance full of animation and spirit . I have occasionally known three or four parts of ...
... colours ; the belly and lower jaws becoming a deep crimson , and the back sometimes a cream colour , but generally a fine green ; and the whole appearance full of animation and spirit . I have occasionally known three or four parts of ...
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abound Andalusia animals appear April April 14 autumn birds birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches cock cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR SIR discovered district eggs feed feet female fieldfare flies flocks frequently garden ground hard frost hatched haunt hirundines hirundo house-martens hundred inches insects January July July 14 July 20 June June 11 June 22 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnĉus male manner March martens mentioned migration mild motacilla natural naturalist nest never night November observed owls plants pond prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE September shew shot showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallow swift tail Temminck THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees village weather wild wings winter woodcock woods wren young
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Page 82 - 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; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 280 - 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.
Page 279 - July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured, ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense, that butchers...
Page 63 - THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK. equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis Ingeuium. VlRQ. Qeorg. WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time the may-fly t 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...
Page 189 - ... seldom failing to strip them with the nicest regularity. When these junci are thus far prepared, they must lie out on the grass to be bleached, and take the dew for some nights, and afterwards be dried in the sun.
Page 191 - Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips, resembling the buzzing of bees. This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion ; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully adroit, discovered no manner of understanding. Had his capacity been better, and directed to the same object, he had perhaps abated much of our wonder at the feats...
Page 180 - I found the stubbles and clover-grounds matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting-nets drawn one over another.
Page 224 - The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes . of speech, very elliptical ; little is said, but much is meant and understood.
Page 19 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Page 206 - ... would proceed but lamely without them ; by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.