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... seen with its feathers black or dirty . The house - swallow likes the water , and may be seen skimming over a pool , backwards and forwards , for several minutes ; it is a pretty bird with purplish back and wings , and a dull red spot ...
... seen with its feathers black or dirty . The house - swallow likes the water , and may be seen skimming over a pool , backwards and forwards , for several minutes ; it is a pretty bird with purplish back and wings , and a dull red spot ...
Page 7
... seen there ; seve- ral kinds visit us during only a part of the year- some spending the summer with us , and some the winter . Some , particularly birds of prey , travel by day , but the greater number travel by night . They generally ...
... seen there ; seve- ral kinds visit us during only a part of the year- some spending the summer with us , and some the winter . Some , particularly birds of prey , travel by day , but the greater number travel by night . They generally ...
Page 8
... seen with its feathers black or dirty . The house - swallow likes the water , and may be seen skimming over a pool , backwards and forwards , for several minutes ; it is a pretty bird with purplish back and wings , and a dull red spot ...
... seen with its feathers black or dirty . The house - swallow likes the water , and may be seen skimming over a pool , backwards and forwards , for several minutes ; it is a pretty bird with purplish back and wings , and a dull red spot ...
Page 9
... seen , all the swallows will have quitted the neighbourhood , and will not appear again till the next spring . As soon as the swallows have arrived in England , the Nightingale follows , and then the Cuckoo . The Nightin- gale is a ...
... seen , all the swallows will have quitted the neighbourhood , and will not appear again till the next spring . As soon as the swallows have arrived in England , the Nightingale follows , and then the Cuckoo . The Nightin- gale is a ...
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... seen running down between the bamboos . The leaves are then shaken out thinly , and again ex- posed to the air on a sort of screen made of bamboo . The best days for doing this are those which are dry and cloudy . After being exposed ...
... seen running down between the bamboos . The leaves are then shaken out thinly , and again ex- posed to the air on a sort of screen made of bamboo . The best days for doing this are those which are dry and cloudy . After being exposed ...
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Page 313 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 307 - Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness...
Page 307 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease: The naked negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his> gods for all the good they gave.
Page 311 - Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren states assign'd; Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.
Page 301 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 305 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 270 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast, The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Page 316 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : * With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Page 269 - WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again.
Page 315 - Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force. Have we not seen, round Britain's peopled shore, Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore?