 | New Church gen. confer - 1825 - 766 pages
...tree, that its loud and piercing notes may be softened by distance before they reach the ear, while lhe mellow blackbird seeks the inferior branches. Should...beautiful plumes, displays his golden wings and crimson crest to charming advantage ! The notes of the cuckoo blend with this cheering concert in a perfectly... | |
 | 1825 - 474 pages
...been eclipsed with a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently we see the «oldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear his song poured...beautiful plumes, displays his golden wings and crimson crest to charming advantage. The notes of the cuckoo blend with this cheering concert in a perfectly... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...the daw. The nightingale, unwearied by the vocal exertions of the night, joins his inferiors in sound in the general harmony. The thrush is wisely placed...goldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear its song poured forth in a strain peculiarly energetic ; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...; while the mellow blackbird -°eks the inferior branches. Should the sun, having heen eclipsed by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently...goldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear its song poured forth in a strain peculiarly energetic ; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...ear; while the mellow blackbird seeks the inferior branches. Should the sun, having been eclipsed by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently...goldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear its song poured forth in a strain peculiarly energetic; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful... | |
 | John Timbs - Animal behavior - 1869 - 374 pages
...ear, while the mellow Blackbird seeks the lower branches. " Should the sun, having been eclipsed by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently...song poured forth in a strain peculiarly energetic ; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful plumes, displays his golden wings and crimson crest... | |
 | Education - 1872 - 420 pages
...ear ; while the mellow blackbird seeks the lower branches. Should the sun, having been eclipsed by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently...bough, and hear his song poured forth in a strain so peculiarly energetic, while the sun, shining on his beautiful plumes, displays his golden wings... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 330 pages
...ear, while the mellow blackbird seeks the lowest branches. " Should the sun, having been eclipsed* by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence,* how frequently...goldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear its song poured forth, in a strain peculiarly energetic ; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pages
...the ear; while the mellow blackbird seeks the lower branches. Should the sun, having been eclipsed by a cloud, shine forth with fresh effulgence, how frequently...goldfinch perch on some blossomed bough, and hear its song poured forth in a strain peculiarly energetic; while the sun, full shining on his beautiful... | |
 | Clinical medicine - 1911 - 386 pages
...chattering of the daw. The nightingale, unwearied by the vocal exertions of the night, withdraws not proudiy by day from his inferiors in song, but joins them...bough, and hear his song poured forth in a strain peculiariy energetic, much more sonorous and lively now than at any other time; while the sun, full... | |
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... in the general harmony. The thrush is wisely placed on the summit of some lofty tree, that its loud and piercing notes may be softened by distance before they reach the ear; while the mellow blackbird seeks the inferior branches. Should the sun, having... 
