Poachers and PoachingChapman and Hall, 1891 - 327 páginas |
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Página 111 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 113 - But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire; Adieu, adieu, adieu, remember me.
Página 87 - All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Página 325 - I took in February three tablespoonfuls of mud from three different points, beneath water on the edge of a little pond ; this mud when dried weighed only 6^ ounces ; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds and were altogether 537 in number and yet the viscid mud was all contained in a breakfast cup...
Página 214 - Great brown ducks sat upon their nests in masses, and at every step started up from under our feet. It was with difficulty that we avoided treading on some of the nests. The island being but three-quarters of a mile in width, the opposite shore was soon reached.
Página 167 - An instance of this is recorded by a watcher on the Thames, who states that while procuring trout ova in a stream at High Wycombe he observed a pair of trout spawning on a shallow ford, and another just below them devouring the ova as fast as it was deposited by the spawner. The keeper netted the thief, and in its stomach were found upwards of two ounces of solid ova, or about 300 eggs.
Página 289 - Erudition in weather and star; For they say ' Twill be dry, The swallow is high,' Or ' Rain, for the chough is afar."' Mr. Ruskin says that he was not aware of this last weather-sign ; nor, he supposes, was the Duke of Hamilton's keeper, who shot the last pair of choughs on Arran in 1863. He trusts that the climate has wept for them, and is certain that the Coniston clouds grow heavier in these his last years. All the birds of the swallow kind fly high at the advent of or during fine weather, and...
Página 58 - Who could not tell a loon a half-mile or more away, though he had never seen one before ? The river was like glass, and every movement of the bird as it sported about broke the surface into ripples, that revealed it far and wide. Presently a boat shot out from shore, and went ripping up the surface toward the loon".
Página 181 - ... like a plummet from his roost, and seize unerringly any little truant which passed within his ken. The appetite of this bird was miraculous ; I never saw him satisfied. He would sit for hours on a projecting bough, his body almost perpendicular, his head thrown back between his shoulders, eyeing with an abstracted air the heavens above or the rocks around him ; he seemed intent only upon exhibiting the glorious lustre of his plumage and the brilliant colours with which his azure back was shaded....
Página 84 - ... she had just seen a horse with a white leg running away at a monstrous rate, and another horse, a great way behind, trying to run after him; but she was sure he would never catch the white-legged horse if he ran to the world's end.