The World of Insects: A Guide to Its WondersJ. Van Voorst, 1856 - 244 pagini |
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Pagina 79
... stone wall , where I should have been glad to have made them settle ; for though they seemed distressed by being taken out of their knowledge , yet the first that got possession of the chinks , would seize upon any that were obtruded ...
... stone wall , where I should have been glad to have made them settle ; for though they seemed distressed by being taken out of their knowledge , yet the first that got possession of the chinks , would seize upon any that were obtruded ...
Pagina 97
... stones in fields during the day - time rest many species of ground - beetles ( Geodephaga ) , which are all carnivorous , and roam about during the night in quest of worms and caterpillars , or indeed of any other unlucky insect they ...
... stones in fields during the day - time rest many species of ground - beetles ( Geodephaga ) , which are all carnivorous , and roam about during the night in quest of worms and caterpillars , or indeed of any other unlucky insect they ...
Pagina 102
... stones , much labour is required to draw the body to a more suitable place . The operation of burying is performed almost entirely by the male beetle , the female mostly hiding herself in the body of the bird about to be buried , or ...
... stones , much labour is required to draw the body to a more suitable place . The operation of burying is performed almost entirely by the male beetle , the female mostly hiding herself in the body of the bird about to be buried , or ...
Pagina 105
... stone walls or entirely open fields of the North . Viewed agriculturally hedges are little better than nuisances , for they serve as great sheltering places for birds and other agents destructive to field crops ; but , on account of the ...
... stone walls or entirely open fields of the North . Viewed agriculturally hedges are little better than nuisances , for they serve as great sheltering places for birds and other agents destructive to field crops ; but , on account of the ...
Pagina 134
... stones than usually occur in the mud of the adjacent cart - ruts . We should , in fact , have passed it by without notice had there not been a circular hole on one side of it , indicating the perforation of some insect . This hole was ...
... stones than usually occur in the mud of the adjacent cart - ruts . We should , in fact , have passed it by without notice had there not been a circular hole on one side of it , indicating the perforation of some insect . This hole was ...
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Pagina 234 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pagina 77 - THE poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Pagina 76 - Green little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; Oh sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Pagina 105 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket...
Pagina 221 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Pagina iv - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Pagina 110 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Pagina 74 - YE field flowers ! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, Yet, wildings of Nature, I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.
Pagina 80 - ... sweetness and melody, nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.
Pagina 32 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view; Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves.