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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Page 72
... nearly every where , except in England , where this noxious race has been entirely destroyed . King Edgar first attempted to effect this by remitting the punishment of certain crimes on producing a number of Wolves ' tongues ; and in ...
... nearly every where , except in England , where this noxious race has been entirely destroyed . King Edgar first attempted to effect this by remitting the punishment of certain crimes on producing a number of Wolves ' tongues ; and in ...
Page 75
... of the spear to arrive at me , so that I was obliged to draw my pistol from my girdle and shoot him ; and nearly at the same time , my servant cleft his skull with a battleaxe . In a word , the Hyæna was the plague E2 QUADRUPEDS . 75.
... of the spear to arrive at me , so that I was obliged to draw my pistol from my girdle and shoot him ; and nearly at the same time , my servant cleft his skull with a battleaxe . In a word , the Hyæna was the plague E2 QUADRUPEDS . 75.
Page 78
... nearly every colour . The female begins to breed when she is about twelve months old , and bears at least seven times a year ; and such is its fertility , that if we should cal- culate the produce of a single pair , in one year , the ...
... nearly every colour . The female begins to breed when she is about twelve months old , and bears at least seven times a year ; and such is its fertility , that if we should cal- culate the produce of a single pair , in one year , the ...
Page 82
... nearly every two months , and bringing from four to twelve at a litter . This animal seems to hold a middle place between the mouse and rabbit tribe , but is much slower in its motions than either . It is less than the rabbit , and its ...
... nearly every two months , and bringing from four to twelve at a litter . This animal seems to hold a middle place between the mouse and rabbit tribe , but is much slower in its motions than either . It is less than the rabbit , and its ...
Page 96
... nearly two feet in length , and lies folded double within it . The tail is of enormous size , and covered with long black hair , somewhat like the tail of a horse . The whole animal , from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail ...
... nearly two feet in length , and lies folded double within it . The tail is of enormous size , and covered with long black hair , somewhat like the tail of a horse . The whole animal , from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail ...
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Popular passages
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?