Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magazine, Volumen11

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H. Sotheran., 1900

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Página 117 - In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made ', Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie, fie, fie...
Página 200 - BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. Illustrated by JOHN E. SOWERBY. Described, with an Introduction and a Key to the Natural Orders, by C. PIERPOINT JOHNSON. Re-issue, to which is now added a Supplement containing 180 new figures, comprising lately discovered Flowering Plants, by JOHN W. SALTER, ALS, FGS; and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses, by JOHN E. SOWERBY. 8vo, with 1780 Coloured Figures, £3 3».
Página 118 - So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence, By stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence ; But she supplies the night with mournful strains.
Página 117 - Fie, fie, fie!', now would she cry; 'Tereu, tereu!', by and by: That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs so lively shown Made me think upon mine own. — Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain, None takes pity on thy pain: Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee, Ruthless...
Página 100 - THREE per CENT. INTEREST allowed on DEPOSITS, repayable on demand. TWO per CENT INTEREST on CURRENT ACCOUNTS calculated on the minimum monthly balances, when not drawn below £50.
Página 5 - I do not want change : I want the same old and loved things, the same wild flowers, the same trees and soft ash-green ; the turtle-doves, the blackbirds, the coloured yellow-hammer sing, sing, singing so long as there is light to cast a shadow on the dial, for such is the measure of his song, and I want them in the same place.
Página 10 - He drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due. The Cypripedium not due till to-morrow.
Página 7 - Who has not sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction from his food in which appetite had no share ? I have been thrilled to think that I owed a mental perception to the commonly gross sense of taste, that I have been inspired through the palate, that some berries which I had eaten on a hillside had fed my genius. "The Soul not being mistress of herself...
Página 6 - ... darted from the clouds; the chaffinch with a feather in her bill ; all the living staircase of the spring, step by step, upwards to the great gallery of the summer — let me watch the same succession year by year.
Página 10 - It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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