| Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1832 - 292 páginas
...figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements—the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays...lessons from almost every species of the feathered race within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the superiority of his genius. He has a voice... | |
| James Rennie - 1833 - 410 páginas
...him, would scarcely entitle him to notice; but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...species of the feathered creation within his hearing, arereally surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of... | |
| Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1833 - 236 páginas
...bird would scarcely entitle him to notice, but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements...and the intelligence he displays in listening and laymg up lessons from almost every species of the feathered race within his hearing, are really surprising',... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 páginas
...him, would scarcely entitle him to notice ; but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genus. To these qualities we may add that of a voice, full, strong, and musical, and capahle of almost... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 páginas
...him, would scarcely entitle him to notice ; but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genus. " In his native groves, mounted on the top of a tall bush or half grown tree, in the dawn of... | |
| 1852 - 670 páginas
...MOCKING-BIRD. The intelligence (says Wilson) which the American mocking-bird displays in listening to, in his clerical capacity at Totпем, his native is really surprising, and marks the peculiarity of his genius. He possesses a voice full, strong, and... | |
| 1839 - 1032 páginas
...and accuracy of the excellent observers who describe it. Wilson liius portrays this polyglot : — ' The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...qualities we may add that of a voice, full, strong, musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood-thrush, to... | |
| 1839 - 534 páginas
...and accuracy of the excellent observers who describe it. Wilson thus portrays this polyglot : — ' The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...qualities we may add that of a voice, full, strong, musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood-thrush, to... | |
| 1839 - 532 páginas
...silent majesty, he bepins his delightful solo; and serenades us the live-long night with ' The case, elegance, and rapidity of his movements, the animation...qualities we may add that of a voice, full, strong, musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood-thrush, to... | |
| Samuel Willard - 1839 - 194 páginas
...bird has nothing gaudy or brilliant about it ; but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements,...creation, within his hearing, are really surprising. 160 -originals. In force and sweetness of expression, he greatly improves upon them. In his native... | |
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