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... birds singing free , Up in the morning , love , Anna - Marie . " IVANHOE . THE melody of birds finds its way to the ... bird may sing from mere gaiety of heart arising from finding itself in the haunts dear to it , and in the midst of ...
... birds singing free , Up in the morning , love , Anna - Marie . " IVANHOE . THE melody of birds finds its way to the ... bird may sing from mere gaiety of heart arising from finding itself in the haunts dear to it , and in the midst of ...
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... bird's structure impervious to air ; and , as M. Jacquemin observes , it is the volume of air which birds can introduce into their bodies , and the force with which they can expel it , that solve the problem how so small a creature as a ...
... bird's structure impervious to air ; and , as M. Jacquemin observes , it is the volume of air which birds can introduce into their bodies , and the force with which they can expel it , that solve the problem how so small a creature as a ...
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... birds . This faculty of learning the first notes that the bird is able to distinguish , leads us to another interesting part of our subject , and we will now proceed to the experiments made by Daines Barrington , showing that the varied ...
... birds . This faculty of learning the first notes that the bird is able to distinguish , leads us to another interesting part of our subject , and we will now proceed to the experiments made by Daines Barrington , showing that the varied ...
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... bird is heard , what notes you are to expect from him ? This , however , arises entirely from the nestling's attending only to the instruction of the parent bird , whilst it disregards the notes of all others , which may , perhaps , be ...
... bird is heard , what notes you are to expect from him ? This , however , arises entirely from the nestling's attending only to the instruction of the parent bird , whilst it disregards the notes of all others , which may , perhaps , be ...
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... bird - fanciers and bird - catchers , " recording , " a word , according to Daines Barrington , probably derived from the musical instrument formerly used in England , called a “ recorder , * ” which seems to have been a species of ...
... bird - fanciers and bird - catchers , " recording , " a word , according to Daines Barrington , probably derived from the musical instrument formerly used in England , called a “ recorder , * ” which seems to have been a species of ...
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Page 303 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 303 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 69 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Page 89 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 305 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 138 - Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth ! Do but look on her hair, it is bright As Love's...
Page 83 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 143 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Page 84 - Alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram, Quae quondam in bustis aut culminibus desertis Nocte sedens, serum canit importuna per umbras ; Hanc versa in faciem, Turni se pestis ob ora 865 Fertque refertque sonans, clipeumque everberat alis.
Page 88 - Dame. Yes, I have brought, to help our vows, Horned poppy, cypress boughs, The fig-tree wild that grows on tombs, And juice that from the larch-tree comes, The basilisk's blood, and the viper's skin : And now our orgies let us begin.