Magazine of Natural History, Volume 3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 - Natural history |
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... seasons , and appear to have regarded certain natural occurrences as indicating and reminding them of the proper season for commencing a variety of affairs in common life . The time was , perhaps it is not yet gone by , when no good ...
... seasons , and appear to have regarded certain natural occurrences as indicating and reminding them of the proper season for commencing a variety of affairs in common life . The time was , perhaps it is not yet gone by , when no good ...
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... season toge- ther . The arrival and departure of birds , the appearance of insects , and the flowering of plants , will in each year depend , in some degree , on the weather ; and a variation of at least a fortnight or more may fairly ...
... season toge- ther . The arrival and departure of birds , the appearance of insects , and the flowering of plants , will in each year depend , in some degree , on the weather ; and a variation of at least a fortnight or more may fairly ...
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... season feed principally on insects , and for this purpose may resort to hawthorn hedges , which abound with the larvæ of various lepidopterous insects . + Swallows and other summer birds come to us , as it were , in the room of our ...
... season feed principally on insects , and for this purpose may resort to hawthorn hedges , which abound with the larvæ of various lepidopterous insects . + Swallows and other summer birds come to us , as it were , in the room of our ...
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... season , but disappears at once , and is not often seen in a very faded state . This modestly attired little moth is found abundantly throughout the greater part of the months of November and December . Its delicate te ART . IV . Some ...
... season , but disappears at once , and is not often seen in a very faded state . This modestly attired little moth is found abundantly throughout the greater part of the months of November and December . Its delicate te ART . IV . Some ...
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... season appointed as its proper period of existence . But Nature knows her own business best : and accordingly these slender crea- tures brave the tempestuous weather they are doomed to encounter , totally regardless of the cold , the ...
... season appointed as its proper period of existence . But Nature knows her own business best : and accordingly these slender crea- tures brave the tempestuous weather they are doomed to encounter , totally regardless of the cold , the ...
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Page 555 - So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate,...
Page 554 - In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. On this a pair of ravens had fixed their residence for such a series of years, that the oak was distinguished by the title of the Raven Tree.
Page 38 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 254 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 526 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the...
Page 259 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 489 - OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post : Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Page 554 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry: the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled.
Page 554 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak with a short, squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Page 38 - The ephemerae are saved by his means from a slow and lingering death in the evening, and killed in a moment, when they have known nothing of life but pleasure. He is the constant destroyer of insects,— the friend of man; and with the stork and the ibis, may be regarded as a sacred bird.