An Essay on the Application of Natural History to PoetryW. Eyres, 1777 - 156 páginas |
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... Species Act are summarized below : Endangered Species Act Funding Congress authorized the appropriation of up to the following amounts in fiscal years 1990-1992 for activities of the Departments of the Interior , Commerce , and ...
... Species Act are summarized below : Endangered Species Act Funding Congress authorized the appropriation of up to the following amounts in fiscal years 1990-1992 for activities of the Departments of the Interior , Commerce , and ...
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... Species Act , represents our commitment to saving the animal and plant species that enrich our lives . The Endangered Species Act was passed because we as a nation care about plants and animals . We realize that once a species becomes ...
... Species Act , represents our commitment to saving the animal and plant species that enrich our lives . The Endangered Species Act was passed because we as a nation care about plants and animals . We realize that once a species becomes ...
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... species in the less forward exten- sion of maxillaries , so that level of canines is noticeably further behind that of anterior incisors , and the bases of the three teeth of each side lie nearly in a straight oblique line ; occipital ...
... species in the less forward exten- sion of maxillaries , so that level of canines is noticeably further behind that of anterior incisors , and the bases of the three teeth of each side lie nearly in a straight oblique line ; occipital ...
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... species from fallax , Thos . & Schw . I have much pleasure in naming this fine well - marked species after Mr. C. D. Rudd , to whose generosity we owe the fine collections made by Mr. Grant in S. Africa , which alone have made possible ...
... species from fallax , Thos . & Schw . I have much pleasure in naming this fine well - marked species after Mr. C. D. Rudd , to whose generosity we owe the fine collections made by Mr. Grant in S. Africa , which alone have made possible ...
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jackknife clam , Pacific gaper , bay shrimp , cutthroat trout , three smelt species , Pacific tomcod , topsmelt , jacksmelt , threespine stickleback , arrow goby , Pacific sand lance , and Pacific staghorn sculpin . Most of these species ...
jackknife clam , Pacific gaper , bay shrimp , cutthroat trout , three smelt species , Pacific tomcod , topsmelt , jacksmelt , threespine stickleback , arrow goby , Pacific sand lance , and Pacific staghorn sculpin . Most of these species ...
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Página 109 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 68 - Kilda's* shore ; whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire ^ Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Página 50 - In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
Página 62 - Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the linnets, o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profusely, silent.
Página 146 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Página 66 - Intent. And often, from the careless back Of herds and flocks, a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft, when...
Página 131 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Página 66 - Commit their feeble offspring : the cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its infefts, and its mofs their nefts. Others apart far in the grafTy dale, Or roughening wafte, their humble texture weave.
Página 70 - The careful hen Calls all her chirping family around, Fed and defended by the fearless cock; Whose breast with ardour flames, as on he walks, Graceful, and crows defiance.
Página 51 - In common, rang'd in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of feafons, and fet forth Their aery caravan high over feas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing...