The Naturalist's Library: BettlesWilliam Jardine W. H. Lizars, 1852 |
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Pagina 79 - Contrivance intricate expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
Pagina 29 - The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes and not glazed.
Pagina 83 - Nature here Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss ! MILToN, B.
Pagina 85 - In variegation, insects certainly exceed every other class of animated beings. Nature, in her sportive mood, when painting them sometimes imitates the clouds of heaven; at others, the meandering course of the rivers of the earth, or the undulations of their waters ; many are veined like beautiful marbles ; others have the semblance of a robe of the finest net-work thrown over them ; some she blazons with heraldic insignia, giving them to bear in fields sable, azure, vert, gules, argent, and or, fesses,...
Pagina 160 - There's a beauty for ever unchangingly bright, Like the long, sunny lapse of a summer day's light, Shining on, shining on, by no shadow made tender, Till Love falls asleep in its sameness of splendour.
Pagina 37 - These two gentlemen,' he writes, 'finding the History of Nature very imperfect, had agreed between themselves, before their travels beyond sea, to reduce the several tribes of things to a method and to give accurate descriptions of the several species from a strict view of them.
Pagina 89 - Of ruin'd shrines, busy and bright, As they were all alive with light; — And, yet more splendid, numerous flocks Of pigeons, settling on the rocks, With their rich restless wings, that gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm west — as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.
Pagina 26 - They lay but one egg a-piece, which is white, and not very large. They are very bold, and sit in great multitudes till one comes close up to them, because they are not wont to be scared or disturbed. The young ones are esteemed a choice dish in Scotland, and sold very dear (Is. 8d. plucked). We eat of them at Dunbar. They are in bigness little inferior to an ordinary goose. The young one is upon the back black, and speckled with little white spots, under the breast and belly grey.
Pagina 160 - Hee who understandeth he hath those troublesome guestes (the gnattes) at home, diligently hunteth after the Cucuij. Whoso wanteth Cucuij goeth out of the house in the first twilight of the night, carrying a burning fire-brande in his hande, and ascendeth the next hillock that the Cucuij may see it, and hee swingeth the fire-brande about, calling Cucuius aloud, and beating the ayre with often calling out Cucuie, Cucuie.