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... Birds of Australia . By John Gould , F.R.S. , & c . 7 vols . imp . folio . London , 1848 . 2. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia . By the Same . 1 vol . 8vo . London , 1848 . 3. The Natural History of Ireland : Birds . By William ...
... Birds of Australia . By John Gould , F.R.S. , & c . 7 vols . imp . folio . London , 1848 . 2. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia . By the Same . 1 vol . 8vo . London , 1848 . 3. The Natural History of Ireland : Birds . By William ...
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... bird of its size , might stand for the type of Jeffrey . With what a clear , brown , bright , almost too unabashed eye he saw everything ; how readily he took wing ; how rapidly and easily , whether in a straight line , or in descending ...
... bird of its size , might stand for the type of Jeffrey . With what a clear , brown , bright , almost too unabashed eye he saw everything ; how readily he took wing ; how rapidly and easily , whether in a straight line , or in descending ...
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... Birds of Australia . By the Same . 1 vol . 8vo . London , 1848 . 3. The Natural History of Ireland : Birds . By WILLIAM THOMPSON , Esq . , President of the Natural History and Philo- sophical Society of Belfast . 3 vols . 8vo . London ...
... Birds of Australia . By the Same . 1 vol . 8vo . London , 1848 . 3. The Natural History of Ireland : Birds . By WILLIAM THOMPSON , Esq . , President of the Natural History and Philo- sophical Society of Belfast . 3 vols . 8vo . London ...
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... Birds are , moreover , the only beings which please the ear no less than they delight the eye . Bees hum , oxen bellow , and dogs bark , and many other creatures - man and beast - not seldom favour us with most discordant sounds , which ...
... Birds are , moreover , the only beings which please the ear no less than they delight the eye . Bees hum , oxen bellow , and dogs bark , and many other creatures - man and beast - not seldom favour us with most discordant sounds , which ...
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... birds was made in 1841. * We need scarcely say that great additions have been made in the course of the ten years which have since elapsed . When we take a survey of the attributes of birds , and con- sider the dimensions of the flying ...
... birds was made in 1841. * We need scarcely say that great additions have been made in the course of the ten years which have since elapsed . When we take a survey of the attributes of birds , and con- sider the dimensions of the flying ...
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Page 398 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 405 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore, — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never — nevermore.
Page 397 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 404 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 397 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 405 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 398 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 406 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 404 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 388 - Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her, When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.