Gleanings from many fields, by the author of 'Portugal'.Darton and Harvey, 1834 - 120 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abbé America amuse animals Anne Askew Apollodorus aunt Mary bald eagle bear BEAR-HUNT beautiful beech-nut bird Birds of prey black swan bread Captain Foster cell Charles Charles Osborne colour condemned consolation cousin creatures Crito death desert island eagle Edward Elizabeth father feelings going hand happy Hawthorne hear heard heart hour humming-birds imprisonment Indian woman jailor killed kind LATRUNCULI laughed listen look Ma'am mamma Maroncelli mind misfortune moral courage Moravia morning mother Murray nature negro never obliged offences pain papa paws person PIGEON FLIGHTS pity pleasure poor pray pretty prison punishment RICKERBY Robert savage seen Silvio Pellico sister smil smile snake Socrates soon story suffered suppose tears tell thing thought Tom Thumb took trees true Turin turkey unwritten law virtue wild beasts window wish Wouralia young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 39 - perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishing-hawk, and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest, for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him
עמוד 123 - into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.' "He blushed as he shut the book; and when the boy retired, he fell on his knees,
עמוד 40 - It is besides (though a little vain and silly it is true, but not the worse emblem for that) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards, who should presume to invade his farm-yard with
עמוד 34 - is seen perched in an erect attitude, on the highest summit of the tallest tree, by the margin of the broad stream ;* his glistening but stern eye looks over the vast expanse. He listens attentively to every sound that comes to his quick ear from afar; glancing now and then on the earth beneath,
עמוד 35 - arranges his plumage in an instant. The snow-white bird is now in sight; her long neck is stretched forward, her eye is on the watch, vigilant as that of her enemy ; her large wings seem with difficulty to support the weight of her body, although they flap incessantly. She approaches,
עמוד 36 - that by such a stratagem the swan might escape him, forces it to remain in the air, by attempting to strike it with his talons from beneath. The hope of escape is soon given up by the swan. It has already become much weakened, and its strength
עמוד 39 - takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but like those among men, who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor and
עמוד 35 - the male bird with an awful scream, that to the swan's ear brings more terror than the report of the large duck-gun. Now is the moment to witness the display of the eagle's powers. He glides through the air like a falling star ; and, like a flash of lightning, comes upon the timorous quarry, which now, in agony and
עמוד 34 - pass unheard. His mate is perched on the opposite side, and should all be tranquil and silent, warns him by a cry to continue patient. At this well-known call, the male partly opens his broad wings, inclines his body a little downwards, and answers to her voice in tones
עמוד 125 - Yet do I feel, at times, my mind decline, But with a sense of its decay: I see Unwonted lights along my prison shine, And a strange demon, who is vexing me With pilfering pranks, and petty pains, below The