A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with Entertaining Anecdotes, and Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors, to which is Added an Appendix of Allegorical and Fabulous AnimalsBaldwin and Cradock, 1829 - 476 pages |
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... brown streaks , on a tawny ground . The Tiger is swift , and afraid of no beasts ; all he attacks most furiously ; yet he seems to be awed by the presence of man , as he never attacks him but when pressed by hunger , or the fear of ...
... brown streaks , on a tawny ground . The Tiger is swift , and afraid of no beasts ; all he attacks most furiously ; yet he seems to be awed by the presence of man , as he never attacks him but when pressed by hunger , or the fear of ...
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... brown colour ; their mane and tail very short , and the hair black and tufted . The Arabs for the most part use the Mares in their ordinary excur- sions ; experience having taught them that they are less vicious than the male , and are ...
... brown colour ; their mane and tail very short , and the hair black and tufted . The Arabs for the most part use the Mares in their ordinary excur- sions ; experience having taught them that they are less vicious than the male , and are ...
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... brown to a light hazel tint , has been reckoned a good sign to judge of his strength and other qualities . The Horse feeds upon grass , either fresh or dry , and corn ; he is liable to many diseases , and often comes suddenly to his end ...
... brown to a light hazel tint , has been reckoned a good sign to judge of his strength and other qualities . The Horse feeds upon grass , either fresh or dry , and corn ; he is liable to many diseases , and often comes suddenly to his end ...
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... brown colour . The male only has a beard , and the female is less than the male this animal skips from rock to rock , and often , when pursued , jumps down enormous preci- pices , and falls on his horns in such a manner as to remain ...
... brown colour . The male only has a beard , and the female is less than the male this animal skips from rock to rock , and often , when pursued , jumps down enormous preci- pices , and falls on his horns in such a manner as to remain ...
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... brown colour ; his flesh is very tender , and good for food . The Wild Boar is the original of the hog kind , but more sagacious and cleanly ; his tusks are sometimes near a foot in length , and they have often proved dangerous to men ...
... brown colour ; his flesh is very tender , and good for food . The Wild Boar is the original of the hog kind , but more sagacious and cleanly ; his tusks are sometimes near a foot in length , and they have often proved dangerous to men ...
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Page 298 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 155 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 219 - Wisely regardful of the' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 456 - The guarded gold ; so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 179 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 65 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 229 - They summ'd their pens ; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 214 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 357 - Address'd his way : not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ; his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 462 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed And gather it into thy barn?