The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar, EtcW.S. Orr and Company, 1850 - 418 pages |
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... half covered with dark spots of fungi as early as the end of August . The church , which is described by White himself , is finely situated , but the tower is stuccoed out of all keeping with the building . The vicarage appears ...
... half covered with dark spots of fungi as early as the end of August . The church , which is described by White himself , is finely situated , but the tower is stuccoed out of all keeping with the building . The vicarage appears ...
Page xii
... half a mile to the south - east of White's residence . The greater number of houses are on the left - hand side proceeding in this direction , and this is the side on which there is a sort of foot - pavement com- posed of pieces of rag ...
... half a mile to the south - east of White's residence . The greater number of houses are on the left - hand side proceeding in this direction , and this is the side on which there is a sort of foot - pavement com- posed of pieces of rag ...
Page xv
... half rustic and half Gothic style ; but nothing can harmonize better with its own situation than this cottage does , and whether it harmonizes with the other buildings of the village or not is a matter of small im- portance , because it ...
... half rustic and half Gothic style ; but nothing can harmonize better with its own situation than this cottage does , and whether it harmonizes with the other buildings of the village or not is a matter of small im- portance , because it ...
Page xvii
... half a century under the grassy turf , his delinea- tions are as fresh , as true to the state of things , and absolutely as new to the visitor of the place , as though the ink in which they were written were hardly dry . There are but ...
... half a century under the grassy turf , his delinea- tions are as fresh , as true to the state of things , and absolutely as new to the visitor of the place , as though the ink in which they were written were hardly dry . There are but ...
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... walk , is a pleasing park- like spot , of about one mile by half that space , jutting out on the verge of the hill country , where it begins to break down into the B plains , and commanding a very engaging view , being THE ...
... walk , is a pleasing park- like spot , of about one mile by half that space , jutting out on the verge of the hill country , where it begins to break down into the B plains , and commanding a very engaging view , being THE ...
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Page 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Page 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Page 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Page 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Page 140 - 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 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Page 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Page 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Page 228 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Page 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...