The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and IllustratedJohn van Voorst, 1871 - 321 páginas |
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... head , and a work of art , it is the one of all others that I should like to think resembled Shakespeare , could its history be more satisfactorily detailed . Many regard as a genuine portrait , the Bust at Strat- ford - on - Avon ...
... head , and a work of art , it is the one of all others that I should like to think resembled Shakespeare , could its history be more satisfactorily detailed . Many regard as a genuine portrait , the Bust at Strat- ford - on - Avon ...
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... Head . " --The Snipe 209 CHAPTER VIII . WILD - FOWL AND SEA - FOWL . - " " 4 Duck - Hunting . " - " A Flight of Fowl . " - Habit of Wounded Birds . Swimming like a Duck . " - Wild - fowling in Shakespeare's Day.- " The Stalking - Horse ...
... Head . " --The Snipe 209 CHAPTER VIII . WILD - FOWL AND SEA - FOWL . - " " 4 Duck - Hunting . " - " A Flight of Fowl . " - Habit of Wounded Birds . Swimming like a Duck . " - Wild - fowling in Shakespeare's Day.- " The Stalking - Horse ...
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... The Pelican . - Feeding its Young with its Blood . - Explanation of the Fable .-- Former Existence of a Pelican in the English Fens.- Conclusion PAGE . 271 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . [ THE HEAD AND TAIL PIECES xxii CONTENTS .
... The Pelican . - Feeding its Young with its Blood . - Explanation of the Fable .-- Former Existence of a Pelican in the English Fens.- Conclusion PAGE . 271 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . [ THE HEAD AND TAIL PIECES xxii CONTENTS .
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... HEAD AND TAIL PIECES FROM DESIGNS BY THE AUTHOR . ] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE , adapted from the Chandos Portrait by J. Wolf , engraved by G. Pearson Deer - Shooting , drawn by J. G. Keulemans , engraved by G. Pearson Rabbit and Beagle 31 ...
... HEAD AND TAIL PIECES FROM DESIGNS BY THE AUTHOR . ] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE , adapted from the Chandos Portrait by J. Wolf , engraved by G. Pearson Deer - Shooting , drawn by J. G. Keulemans , engraved by G. Pearson Rabbit and Beagle 31 ...
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... heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook - knee'd , 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 ∞ INTRODUCTION .
... heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook - knee'd , 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 ∞ INTRODUCTION .
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The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1871 |
The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1871 |
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alluded allusion amongst ancient animal appears Barnacle beak bird BRITISH caliver called choughs cock colour cormorants crow cuckoo curious Cymbeline daye paied doth doubt eagle eggs England falcon falconry Falstaff feathers fish flight Foolscap 8vo fowl frequently goose goshawk gull habits Hamlet hath hawk Henry heron iiij Julius Cæsar King Lear kite lark Lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth mentioned Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream NATURAL HISTORY naturalist nest nightingale noticed observed Ornithology partridge passage peacock pece pelican pheasants pigeons poet portrait Post 8vo prey raven referred Richard Richard II Roman Romeo and Juliet Royal 8vo says Second Edition 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 vols vulture wild wild-fowl 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 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 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, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit ; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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 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 152 - And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 129 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record
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.