The birds of Shakespeare: critically examined, explained, and illustratedJohn Van Voorst, 1871 - 321 páginas |
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... live seven times the number of years that bring them to perfection , " upon which computation the average life of an eagle would be twenty - one years . But this maxim is founded on a misconception . Fleurens , in his treatise " De la ...
... live seven times the number of years that bring them to perfection , " upon which computation the average life of an eagle would be twenty - one years . But this maxim is founded on a misconception . Fleurens , in his treatise " De la ...
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... live and strong prey , but glides about ignobly , looking for a sickly or wounded victim , or for offal of any sort . " And kites Fly o'er our heads , and downward look on us , As we were sickly prey . " Fulius Cæsar , Act v . Sc . I ...
... live and strong prey , but glides about ignobly , looking for a sickly or wounded victim , or for offal of any sort . " And kites Fly o'er our heads , and downward look on us , As we were sickly prey . " Fulius Cæsar , Act v . Sc . I ...
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... live pigeon , secured to a string by soft leather jesses , in order to recall them . * The long - winged hawks were always brought to the lure , the short - winged ones to the hand- " As falcon to the lure , away she flies . " Venus and ...
... live pigeon , secured to a string by soft leather jesses , in order to recall them . * The long - winged hawks were always brought to the lure , the short - winged ones to the hand- " As falcon to the lure , away she flies . " Venus and ...
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... that so delightful a pastime as hawking should have declined , and that we should live to see our noble falcons gibbeted , like thieves , upon " the keeper's tree . " CHAPTER III . AS Jove assumed the shape of an. 82 SUNDRIES .
... that so delightful a pastime as hawking should have declined , and that we should live to see our noble falcons gibbeted , like thieves , upon " the keeper's tree . " CHAPTER III . AS Jove assumed the shape of an. 82 SUNDRIES .
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... live - long night . " Macbeth , Act ii . Sc . 2 . The awe , no doubt , with which this bird is regarded by the superstitious , may be attributed in some measure to the fact of its flying by night . “ Deep night , dark night , the silent ...
... live - long night . " Macbeth , Act ii . Sc . 2 . The awe , no doubt , with which this bird is regarded by the superstitious , may be attributed in some measure to the fact of its flying by night . “ Deep night , dark night , the silent ...
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The Birds of Shakespeare Critically Examined, Explained and Illustrated James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1871 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
alluded allusion amongst ancient animal appears BARNACLES beak bird British buzzard Cæsar caliver called choughs cock cormorants crow cuckoo curious Cymbeline daye paied doth doubt eagle eggs England falcon falconry Falstaff feathers feed fish flight fowl frequently goose goshawk gull habits Hamlet hath hawk head Henry heron iiij Julius Cæsar King Lear kite lark Lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucrece Macbeth mentioned Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream naturalist nest nightingale noticed observed Othello partridge passage peacock pece pelican pheasants Philomel pigeons Plays poet portrait prey quails raven referred Richard Richard II Roman Romeo and Juliet s'vñt says Shakespeare Shakespeare's day Shrew sing song sparrow speaking species sport swallow swan Taming Tempest thee thou Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night viij vulture wild wild-fowl wind wings Winter's Tale woodcock word wren young
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Página 3 - What have we here ? a man or a fish ? dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John.
Página 8 - 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. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Página 10 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Página 135 - 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...
Página 143 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 95 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail...
Página 168 - Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Página 18 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Página 19 - Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Página 132 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.