Love's Meinie: Lectures on Greek and English Birds. Vol.1, 1권George Allen, 1881 - 195페이지 |
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ALLEGRETTA NYMPHÆA Aquaticus Baillon's Crake beak beautiful Bewick bird bird's bodice body BRANTWOOD breast Buffon called chemisette Chough CHRISTCHURCH claws colour Crake creatures Cypselus dabchick deesh Dipper divers diving Donatello ducks eggs English entirely epithet exquisite falcon feathers feet flies flight foot French give given Gould Greek grey habit hawk head Hirundo JOHN RUSKIN land Latin least leaves lectures LILY-OUZEL Little Crake Little Grebe living look manner means MEINIE minute modern motion natural history nest never Northern Diver observe once ornithologists Ouzel Painters phalarope plumage plume Porzana quills Rail Rallus reader red-necked phalarope robin Rubecula sail scientific seems seen shot species spots Spotted Crake Stellaris strike suppose swallow Swift swimming tail Temminck things Titania Titmouse toes tribe Tringa volume vulgar Water Rail water-hen water-ouzel wings word Yarrell
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157 페이지 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
159 페이지 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
30 페이지 - Feathers are smoothed down, as a field of corn by wind with rain ; only the swathes laid in beautiful order. They are fur, so structurally placed as to imply, and submit to, the perpetually swift forward motion. In fact, I have no doubt the Darwinian theory on the subject is that the feathers of birds once stuck up all erect, like the bristles of a brush, and have only been blown flat by continual flying. Nay, we might even sufficiently represent the general manner of conclusion in the Darwinian...
157 페이지 - Protect from beating sunbeams, and the sweep Of the sharp winds; - fair Creatures! - to whom Heaven A calm and sinless life, with love, hath given.
142 페이지 - I have not the least idea where I am going, nor what I am to do. I wished to have gone to Rome ; but at present it is pestilent with English, — a parcel of staring boobies, who go about gaping and wishing to be at once cheap and magnificent. A man is a fool who travels now in France or Italy, till this tribe of wretches is swept home again. In two or three years the first rush will be over, and the Continent will be roomy and agreeable.
25 페이지 - It takes a worm by one extremity in its beak, and beats it on the ground till the inner part comes away. Then seizing it in a similar manner by the other end, it entirely cleanses the outer part, which alone it eats.
54 페이지 - of dark bluish-grey, mixed with streaks and specks of black. Large white spots, which have the form of a heart, and which are bordered with black, mark the head, the wings, and the tail. The spread of the wings, which are composed of seventeen or eighteen quill feathers, is three feet and a half. Suppressing, with Mr. Cuvier, the order of Picae, we must refer this extraordinary bird to the Sparrows
142 페이지 - Courthope does not condescend to italicize his pun ; but a swallow-tailed and adder-tongued pun like this must be paused upon. Compare Mr. Murray's Tale of the Town of Lucca, to be seen between the arrival of one train and the departure of the next,* — nothing there but twelve churches and a cathedral, — mostly of the tenth to thirteenth century.
142 페이지 - Fine webs in one's brain, philosophical, vain, — the swallows the pleasures of travel, Who chirped in such strain of Greece, Italy, Spain, and Egypt, that men, when they heard, Were mad to fly forth from their nests in the north, and follow the tail of the bird.
143 페이지 - Were mad to fly forth from their nests in the north, and follow the tail of the bird. Besides, it is true to our wisdom is due the knowledge of sciences all, And chiefly those rare Metaphysics of air men Meteorology call. For, indeed, it is said a kingfisher when dead has his science alive in him still ; And, hung up, he will show how the wind means to blow, and turn to the point with his bill. And men in their words acknowledge the birds...