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Page 9
... birds around us wail . OCTOBER . Now Pomona pours her treasure , Leaves autumnal strew the ground : Plenty crowns the market measure , While the mill runs briskly round . NOVEMBER . Now the giddy rites of Comus Crown the hunter's dear ...
... birds around us wail . OCTOBER . Now Pomona pours her treasure , Leaves autumnal strew the ground : Plenty crowns the market measure , While the mill runs briskly round . NOVEMBER . Now the giddy rites of Comus Crown the hunter's dear ...
Page 13
... birds of passage , such as wild - ducks , widgeons , teal , plovers , & c . , which arrive in the cold season , are to be found in most parts of England ; but London is chiefly supplied from the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire ...
... birds of passage , such as wild - ducks , widgeons , teal , plovers , & c . , which arrive in the cold season , are to be found in most parts of England ; but London is chiefly supplied from the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire ...
Page 27
... birds , and other indications of the time of the year , according to the ave- rage time of their appearance , as stated in Dr. Forster's " Encyclopædia of Natural Phe- nomena , " upon the authority of a private manuscript journal kept ...
... birds , and other indications of the time of the year , according to the ave- rage time of their appearance , as stated in Dr. Forster's " Encyclopædia of Natural Phe- nomena , " upon the authority of a private manuscript journal kept ...
Page 41
... birds flew down to peck at them ; and that Parrhasius's pic- ture represented a curtain , which Zeuxis taking to be a real one desired to be drawn aside to exhibit what his adversary had done : On finding his mistake , he said that he ...
... birds flew down to peck at them ; and that Parrhasius's pic- ture represented a curtain , which Zeuxis taking to be a real one desired to be drawn aside to exhibit what his adversary had done : On finding his mistake , he said that he ...
Page 53
... birds put into one and frogs into the other ; then the holes were closed up with paste , and the lids neatly cut up ... birds , which would naturally fly at the light , and so put out the candles . And so , with the leaping of the frogs ...
... birds put into one and frogs into the other ; then the holes were closed up with paste , and the lids neatly cut up ... birds , which would naturally fly at the light , and so put out the candles . And so , with the leaping of the frogs ...
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