Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the AlmanackSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1821 |
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... food . The bill is more or less curved , strong , and often covered round the base by a naked mem- brane , called cere ; and on each side , c 2 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY . xxix mankind at the docility of an animal so insipid, ...
... food . The bill is more or less curved , strong , and often covered round the base by a naked mem- brane , called cere ; and on each side , c 2 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY . xxix mankind at the docility of an animal so insipid, ...
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... round with great alacrity and feed upon them . When the insects do not answer this call , the birds , by means of their long tongues , bring out their reluctant prey . Picus , king of the Latins , was , by the spells of Circe , changed ...
... round with great alacrity and feed upon them . When the insects do not answer this call , the birds , by means of their long tongues , bring out their reluctant prey . Picus , king of the Latins , was , by the spells of Circe , changed ...
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... round ; and in this state they are fed on bread and sugar mixed with hemp - seed , which fat- tens them prodigiously . They are kept in this way for eight or nine months . In the winter season quails will bring from half a guinea to ...
... round ; and in this state they are fed on bread and sugar mixed with hemp - seed , which fat- tens them prodigiously . They are kept in this way for eight or nine months . In the winter season quails will bring from half a guinea to ...
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... round his hospitable door , Wait the known call , and find protection there From all the lesser tyrants of the air . BARBAULD . The genera of the order Gralla are : -1 . Ardea , crane , heron , bittern . - 2 . Numenius , curlew . - 3 ...
... round his hospitable door , Wait the known call , and find protection there From all the lesser tyrants of the air . BARBAULD . The genera of the order Gralla are : -1 . Ardea , crane , heron , bittern . - 2 . Numenius , curlew . - 3 ...
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... round the neck ; females have not this dis- tinction , and are called reeves . This bird is much coveted by the lovers of good eating . Ruffs are □ Graves's British Ornithology , vol . i . ' sometimes pinioned and confined in a walled ...
... round the neck ; females have not this dis- tinction , and are called reeves . This bird is much coveted by the lovers of good eating . Ruffs are □ Graves's British Ornithology , vol . i . ' sometimes pinioned and confined in a walled ...
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xxxii ページ - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
152 ページ - We walked in the evening in Greenwich park. He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition, " Is not this very fine?" Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with " the busy hum of men," I answered " Yes, sir ; but not equal to Fleet-street." JOHNSON. "You are right, sir.
45 ページ - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios...
38 ページ - In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To BEAUTY ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of PRIDE, The trappings which dizen the proud ? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allow'd, But the long winding-sheet, and the...
219 ページ - It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...
73 ページ - ... in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it. For whereas before coaches could not be had but at...
lxii ページ - Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant...
294 ページ - Anon they'll think the house goes round : For they the cellar's depth have found, And there they will be merry. The wenches with their wassail bowls About the streets are singing ; The boys are come to catch the owls, The wild mare in is bringing.
252 ページ - Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?