 ... alarmed at your approach, rapidly hide themselves beneath the flowers and leaves of the water-lily ; and, as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout...  The Ornithological Guide ... - Pagina 121di Charles Thorold Wood - 1835 - 240 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Edward Jesse - 1834 - 352 pagine
...' and brighter, till the swallow and the trout con' tend as it were for the gaudy may-fly, and till in ' pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy...serenaded by the songs of the ' cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, per' forming the offices of paternal love, in thickets 1 ornamented with the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pagine
...amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose and woodbine."^Pp. 8—10. Before leaving this beautiful passage, in which the angler seems to contemplate... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly ; and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend^ as it were, for the gaudy May' fly. and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets oiyaiuented with the rose... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pagine
...and tho trout contend as it were for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in Ihe calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the songs...the melodious nightingale, performing the offices of maternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose and the woodbine." While upon the subject of fly-fishing,... | |
 | 1839 - 798 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy fllay.fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | 1840 - 756 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 722 pagine
...and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening,...serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush and melodious nightingale, performing the offices of paternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
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