The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volumen 2Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1835 |
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... plants , the old herbalists attached a magical power ; thus the vervain , Verbena officinalis , was given to conciliate friendship , and hence Shakspeare alludes to the power of the fern - seed in bestowing invisibility . John Parkinson ...
... plants , the old herbalists attached a magical power ; thus the vervain , Verbena officinalis , was given to conciliate friendship , and hence Shakspeare alludes to the power of the fern - seed in bestowing invisibility . John Parkinson ...
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... plants , that plant upon which the animal is most commonly found , will be selected for delineation . Thus the cater- pillar of the Bombyx quercús is represented on the leaves of a briar ; and that of the Orgya fascelina upon the ...
... plants , that plant upon which the animal is most commonly found , will be selected for delineation . Thus the cater- pillar of the Bombyx quercús is represented on the leaves of a briar ; and that of the Orgya fascelina upon the ...
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... plants and animals , its rocks and water . A desire to obtain some knowledge of these objects is congenial to the intellectual character of man . Hence Natural Philosophy , which in its extended sense embraces every inquiry or ...
... plants and animals , its rocks and water . A desire to obtain some knowledge of these objects is congenial to the intellectual character of man . Hence Natural Philosophy , which in its extended sense embraces every inquiry or ...
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... plants which rise a foot or two from the ground . They also take up their abode on open paling , or on buildings which have any projections that will admit their forming a web which shall be in free air , and at some distance from the ...
... plants which rise a foot or two from the ground . They also take up their abode on open paling , or on buildings which have any projections that will admit their forming a web which shall be in free air , and at some distance from the ...
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... plant and the " Auctarium , " a Floral Register , descriptive of new and interesting plants , which will greatly enhance the value of the work , and must necessarily tend to increase its circulation . The spirited proprietor , in his ...
... plant and the " Auctarium , " a Floral Register , descriptive of new and interesting plants , which will greatly enhance the value of the work , and must necessarily tend to increase its circulation . The spirited proprietor , in his ...
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Página 193 - The flanking parties were quietly extending themselves, out of sight, on each side of the valley, and the residue were stretching themselves, like the links of a chain, across it, when the wild horses gave signs that they scented an enemy; snuffing the air, snorting, and looking about. At length they pranced off slowly toward the river, and disappeared behind a green bank. Here, had the regulations of the chase been observed, they would have been quietly checked and turned back by the advance of...
Página 261 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Página 396 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 39 - Such was Zuleika, such around her shone The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone — The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
Página 192 - This has to be done with extreme care, for the wild horse is the most readily alarmed inhabitant of the prairie, and can scent a hunter at a great distance, if to windward.
Página 193 - Jack-o'-lantern little Frenchman to deal with. Instead of keeping quietly up the right side of the valley, to get above the horses, the moment he saw them move toward the river, he broke out of the...
Página 192 - A beautiful meadow about half a mile wide, enamelled with yellow autumnal flowers, stretched for two or three miles along the foot of the hills, bordered on the opposite side by the river, whose banks were fringed with cotton-wood trees, the bright foliage of which refreshed and delighted the eye, after being wearied by the contemplation of monotonous wastes of brown forest.
Página 65 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 257 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.