The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarBell & Daldy, 1870 - 416 pages |
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... passage from ' The Cyder ' of John Philips : - • Who knows but that once more This mount may journey , and , his present site Forsaken , to thy neighbour's bounds transfer Thy goodly plants , affording matter strange For law debates ...
... passage from ' The Cyder ' of John Philips : - • Who knows but that once more This mount may journey , and , his present site Forsaken , to thy neighbour's bounds transfer Thy goodly plants , affording matter strange For law debates ...
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... passage or two from an article which appeared some years ago in the New Monthly Magazine , on the village of Selborne , written by one who appears to have visited it out of pure love for the memory of Mr. White , and from the pleasure ...
... passage or two from an article which appeared some years ago in the New Monthly Magazine , on the village of Selborne , written by one who appears to have visited it out of pure love for the memory of Mr. White , and from the pleasure ...
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... passages his book which , with so pleasing and beautiful an association , have identified the intellectual pursuits of the man , with the tasteful purity of his mind , with the every beauty of his in beloved retreat . The swallows , his ...
... passages his book which , with so pleasing and beautiful an association , have identified the intellectual pursuits of the man , with the tasteful purity of his mind , with the every beauty of his in beloved retreat . The swallows , his ...
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... passage ; but alas , since then Parliamentary enactments have deprived the labourers of much of their rights of common , by enclosing them , and thus much of their means of sub- sistence , and consequently of their prosperity , have ...
... passage ; but alas , since then Parliamentary enactments have deprived the labourers of much of their rights of common , by enclosing them , and thus much of their means of sub- sistence , and consequently of their prosperity , have ...
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... passage proves what an accurate observer Mr. White was of appa- rently trifling facts and circumstances in natural history . He might have added to the above that so economical is Nature , that when cattle are standing in the water ...
... passage proves what an accurate observer Mr. White was of appa- rently trifling facts and circumstances in natural history . He might have added to the above that so economical is Nature , that when cattle are standing in the water ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn bees birds of passage breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequently frost garden Gilbert White grass ground haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 MARKWICK mentioned migration mild morning naturalist nest never night observed perhaps plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone curlew strange summer suppose swallows swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vast village vols weather WHITE wild wings winter wonder woods wren young
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Page 296 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 212 - ... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:* — Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten.
Page 210 - ... his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips, resembling the buzzing of bees. This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion ; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully...
Page 146 - I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw...
Page 33 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.