 ... 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
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 460 pagine
...amusement in the calm and balmly 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 446 pagine
...contend, as it were, for the gaudy Mayfly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmly 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... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pagine
...trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy may-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm of balmy evening, you are serenaded by the songs of the...paternal love in thickets ornamented with the rose and the woodbine." THE BOOK OF THE MONTHS. JANUARY. JANUARY is the first month of the year, and it is also... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 246 pagine
...better 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 ofifices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 344 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pagine
...bettor 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... | |
 | G. W. Soltau - 1847 - 118 pagine
...better 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,...the melodious nightingale, performing the offices of maternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose and the woodbine." Sir H. Davie's researches in... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pagine
...better 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 pagine
...better 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pagine
...better 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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