Advanced Reading Book: Literary and ScientificThomas Constable and Company, 1860 - 432 páginas |
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... whole tribes of creatures that live on others more minute , and are in turn preyed on by species more powerful than themselves . To know with accuracy the various kinds of animals found as permanent residents or occasional visitants in ...
... whole tribes of creatures that live on others more minute , and are in turn preyed on by species more powerful than themselves . To know with accuracy the various kinds of animals found as permanent residents or occasional visitants in ...
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... whole expanse of sky before me was enlivened by their presence . At one view I reckoned fifty spread singly over the atmosphere . The many - coloured sky , chiefly blue , with white and rich yellow clouds , against which they were seen ...
... whole expanse of sky before me was enlivened by their presence . At one view I reckoned fifty spread singly over the atmosphere . The many - coloured sky , chiefly blue , with white and rich yellow clouds , against which they were seen ...
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... whole flock take wing together , and wheeling along in half circles , near the edge or the surface of the water , each bird exhibits alternately a dark or a light appearance to the observer , as the upper or the under side of its body ...
... whole flock take wing together , and wheeling along in half circles , near the edge or the surface of the water , each bird exhibits alternately a dark or a light appearance to the observer , as the upper or the under side of its body ...
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... whole range of cliffs at that time is animated with bird - life , and musical with their varied notes . If a gun be fired , hundreds of birds dart into the air , uttering screams of terror ; these soon subside , and we again hear only ...
... whole range of cliffs at that time is animated with bird - life , and musical with their varied notes . If a gun be fired , hundreds of birds dart into the air , uttering screams of terror ; these soon subside , and we again hear only ...
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... whole life is passed ; he is the solitary in- mate of the grotto he has constructed . Even were he desirous of leaving his abode , escape would be impossible ; for the thick end of the shell , which possesses the perforating power , is ...
... whole life is passed ; he is the solitary in- mate of the grotto he has constructed . Even were he desirous of leaving his abode , escape would be impossible ; for the thick end of the shell , which possesses the perforating power , is ...
Términos y frases comunes
acrogenous animals appear Ariste attraction beautiful becomes birds blood body boiling bones brain called calyx capitalist carbonic acid centre cerebellum cerebrum chyle clothing clouds colour common cotyledons countries crab earth electric current electricity enable fingers flowers fluid fruit give glass grow hand heat hence hermit crab increase iron James Goodfellow labour leaves less lesson light limbs live looking-glass machinery matter means metal mind molluscs monocotyledonous motion muscles nature needle nerve organs ovary pass piece pistil plants possess present produce profit Prohibitor quadrupeds quantity rays reflected retina round rubbed SECT seed seen shell side skin social economy sound species spinal cord stalk stamens stem substance suppose surface things thou tion tree tube vapour vegetable vertebral column vessel Vitreous humour wages whelk whilst words workmen zinc
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Página 365 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Página 362 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Página 370 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 408 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere.
Página 377 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple...
Página 366 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Página 360 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Página 388 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii.
Página 363 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention...
Página 388 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...