 ... 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
 | Oriel readers - 1885 - 248 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. 9. This excessive fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated... | |
 | 1885 - 456 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. 8. This excessive fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated... | |
 | 1899 - 434 páginas
...execution and effect that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat...exertions. This excessive fondness for variety, however, injures his song. The warblings of the bluebird, which he imitates, he often interrupts to scream like... | |
 | 1899 - 408 páginas
...execution and effect that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat...exertions. This excessive fondness for variety, however, injures his song. The warblings of the bluebird, which he imitates, he often interrupts to scream like... | |
 | Laura Rigal - 2001 - 276 páginas
...birds: "he can adopt the songs of any and all birds," Wilson writes, and "would even bark like a dog": His elevated imitations of the brown thrush are frequently interrupted by the crowing of the cocks; and the warblings of the Blue Bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 páginas
...exeeution and effeet that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and beeome altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions. This exeessive fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated imitations... | |
 | 1837 - 610 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... | |
 | 1846 - 652 páginas
...execution and elTcct, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions.'1 As there is thus an evident capability of modification, so there must, to a certain degree,... | |
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