 | 1828 - 746 pages
...them their prey.” • Again, how eloquent, and yet how simple, is the burst about the swallow :— “I delight in this living landscape! The swallow is one of my fKvourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale; for he glads my sense of seeing, as much as the other... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...as it were, with the most poetical descriptions. In speaking of the swallow, Poietes exclaims — " I delight in this living landscape ! The swallow is...favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Chemistry - 1831 - 582 pages
...as it were, with the most poetical descriptions. In speaking of the swallow, Poietes exclaims — " I delight in this living landscape ! The swallow is...favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...my own opinion, it is not agreeable to any sort of readers. Your constant reader, XQZ THE SWALLOW. THE Swallow is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale; for he cheers my sense of seeing, as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...beautiful and vivid reflections on the swallow are from the pen of the late Sir Humphry Davy : — "I delight in this living landscape ! the swallow...rival of the nightingale ; for he glads my sense of hearing. He is the joyous prophet of the year, the harbinger of the best season ; he has a life of... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...beautiful and vivid reflections on the swallow are from the pen of the late Sir Humphry Davy : — "I delight in this living landscape ! the swallow...rival of the nightingale ; for he glads my sense of hearing. He is the joyous prophet of the year, the harbinger of the best season ; he has a life of... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1834 - 352 pages
...Davy has recorded his admiration of this bird in language almost poetical. ' The swallow,' he says/ is one of my favourite birds, and a ' rival of the nightingale, for he cheers my sense of ' seeing as much as the other does my sense of ' hearing. He is the glad prophet... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1834 - 372 pages
...Davy has recorded his admiration of this bird in language almost poetical. ' The swallow,' he says,' is one of my favourite birds, and a ' rival of the nightingale, for he cheers my sense of ' seeing as much as the other does my sense of ' hearing. He is the glad prophet... | |
 | John Davy - 1836 - 436 pages
...believe the reason is, they have been greatly diminished by the flocks of swallows which everywhere pursue them. I have seen a single swallow take four...favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale, for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1842 - 782 pages
...instanced as familiar examples of this tribe.' ' The swallow,' says Sir Humphrey Davy, in his Salmouia, ' is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of... | |
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The swallow is one of my favourite birds, and a rival of the nightingale ; for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season : he lives a life of enjoyment... 
