The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 62Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... Birds— Visiters The Night Wind's Monody . Suggested by hearing the wind whistle me- lodiously through Lincoln Cathedral . By E. P .. Ephraim Rue : the Victim of Society . By Douglas Jerrold , Esq . An Hour or Two with Berryer Wanted a ...
... Birds— Visiters The Night Wind's Monody . Suggested by hearing the wind whistle me- lodiously through Lincoln Cathedral . By E. P .. Ephraim Rue : the Victim of Society . By Douglas Jerrold , Esq . An Hour or Two with Berryer Wanted a ...
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... birds of passage of other nations , and were less cautious in parting with it . Amongst her numerous admirers , was a young Irishman of good family , tolerable fortune , and elegant address . His name was Fitz- gerald O'Carrol . His ...
... birds of passage of other nations , and were less cautious in parting with it . Amongst her numerous admirers , was a young Irishman of good family , tolerable fortune , and elegant address . His name was Fitz- gerald O'Carrol . His ...
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... birds waiting for worms , and then slip down their throats a string of the stuff as long and as wide as a horse's belly - band . " " And what sort of tree does it grow on ? " asked Shelah . " Och , I never seed it growing , " said O ...
... birds waiting for worms , and then slip down their throats a string of the stuff as long and as wide as a horse's belly - band . " " And what sort of tree does it grow on ? " asked Shelah . " Och , I never seed it growing , " said O ...
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... bird in that country called the " becca- fico . " Mr. Hoolagan , the host of the Shamrock , was puzzled , but with great Irish presence of mind replied " He could furnish a duck or a goose , which was a pretty eating bird , seeing his ...
... bird in that country called the " becca- fico . " Mr. Hoolagan , the host of the Shamrock , was puzzled , but with great Irish presence of mind replied " He could furnish a duck or a goose , which was a pretty eating bird , seeing his ...
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... birds from the cyrus ( a magnificent bird of the heron species ) , to the teal . There are likewise the jungle - fowl and spur - fowl , which afford excellent sport . What is called " riding across a country , " in which so many shades ...
... birds from the cyrus ( a magnificent bird of the heron species ) , to the teal . There are likewise the jungle - fowl and spur - fowl , which afford excellent sport . What is called " riding across a country , " in which so many shades ...
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Página 477 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 86 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Página 201 - Each species of hirundo drinks as it flies along, sipping the surface of the water ; but the swallow alone, in general, washes on the wing, by dropping into a pool for many times together : in very hot weather house-martins and bank-martins dip and wash a little. The swallow is a delicate songster, and in soft sunny weather sings both perching and flying, on trees in a kind of concert, and on chimney-tops...
Página 201 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Página 86 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 427 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Página 86 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Página 547 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But out, alack!
Página 483 - The cuckoo's a fine bird, he sings as he flies; he brings us good tidings, he tells us no lies. He sucks little birds' eggs to make his voice clear; and when he sings „cuckoo!
Página 85 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.