 ... 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,...  The World of Insects: A Guide to Its Wonders - Pagina 80de John William Douglas - 1856 - 244 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 414 pagini
...with, a train of fummer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the tenth of March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and bore, and diape very elegantly. All that ever I have feen at that feafon were in their pupa date, and had only... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pagini
...marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of Hammer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 10th...ever I have seen at that season were in their pupa stato, and bad only the rudiments of wings lying under a skin or coat, which must be cast before the... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 pagini
...with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. " About the tenth of March, the Crickets appear at the mouths of their...open and bore, and shape very elegantly. All that I have ever seen at that season were in that pupa state, and had only the rudiments of wings lying... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pagini
...marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 10th...open and bore, and shape very elegantly. All that I ever have seen at that season were in their pupa state, and had only the rudiments of wings lying... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pagini
...marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 10th...open and bore, and shape very elegantly. All that I ever have seen at that season were in their pupa state, and had only the rudiments of wings lying... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pagini
...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. The same. THE FOOT OF A HORSE is one of the most ingenious and unexpected pieces of mechanism in the... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pagini
...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. Thesame. THE FOOT OF A HORSE is one of the most ingenious and unexpected pieces of mechanism in the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pagini
...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. About the 1 Oth of March, the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and bore, and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 348 pagini
...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. skin or coat, which must be cast before the insect can arrive at its perfect state,* from whence I... | |
 | Sights - 1844 - 104 pagini
...field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights THE MOLE CRICKET. some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." One of these insects when confined in a paper cage and set in the sun, and supplied with plants moistened... | |
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