... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters... The Parent's Present - Página 55editado por - 1835 - 232 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1842 - 400 páginas
...mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumphs in their defeat by redoubling his exertions. This...fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, ini jures his song. His elevated imitations of the ! brown thrush are frequently interrupted by the... | |
| Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 páginas
...over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale, or red bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the...triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions.' Warblers. — The Summer Yellow Bird, or Warbler, is a brilliant and common species, found in every... | |
| George Willson - 1844 - 300 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions. 7 This excessive fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions. " Both in his native and domesticated state, during the solemn stillness of night, as soon as the moon... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat,...frequently interrupted by the crowing of cocks ; and the vvarblings of the blue-bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of swallows,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 páginas
...red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. A correspondent of Wilson furnishes the following account of an oriole : " This... | |
| 1846 - 910 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions.' As there is thus an evident capability of modification, so there must, to a certain degree, be improvement... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent ; while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions." — The female lays from four to five eggs, of an ash-blue colour, marked with patches of brown; she... | |
| 1846 - 544 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions. As there is thus an evident capability of modification, so there must, to a certain degree, be improvement... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 páginas
...execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent; while he seems to triumph in their defeat...by the crowing of cocks ; and the warblings of the blue bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling... | |
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