The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1898 - 416 sider |
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... sing ; Ere the first swallow sweeps the fresh'ning plain , Ere love - sick turtles breathe their amorous pain ; Let festive glee th ' enliven'd village raise , Pan's blameless reign , and patriarchal days ; With pastoral dance the ...
... sing ; Ere the first swallow sweeps the fresh'ning plain , Ere love - sick turtles breathe their amorous pain ; Let festive glee th ' enliven'd village raise , Pan's blameless reign , and patriarchal days ; With pastoral dance the ...
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... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . Mr. Ray himself had no knowledge of this bird ...
... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . Mr. Ray himself had no knowledge of this bird ...
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... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the regulus non cris- tatus of Ray ; which he says , " cantat voce stridulâ locustœ . ” ‡ Yet this great ornithologist never suspected that there were three species . * These birds are accurately ...
... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the regulus non cris- tatus of Ray ; which he says , " cantat voce stridulâ locustœ . ” ‡ Yet this great ornithologist never suspected that there were three species . * These birds are accurately ...
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... sings all night : but this For this salicaria , see Letter xxvI . p . 98 . + Sylvia phragmites . Bechst . Sedge warbler . - Selby's Ornith . - W . J. This is an error which runs through most of our books of ornithology . The reed ...
... sings all night : but this For this salicaria , see Letter xxvI . p . 98 . + Sylvia phragmites . Bechst . Sedge warbler . - Selby's Ornith . - W . J. This is an error which runs through most of our books of ornithology . The reed ...
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... sings : These , Nature's works , the curious mind emp oy , 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 ...
... sings : These , Nature's works , the curious mind emp oy , 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 ...
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