 | David Hosack, John Wakefield Francis - 1814 - 614 Seiten
...emphasis and rapidity ; and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white,...the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. Me sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away... | |
 | 1813 - 496 Seiten
...emphasis and rapidity, and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour or an hour at n time. His expanded wings and tail glistening ! with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arrest the eye, as his song irresistibly engages the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy;... | |
 | 1826 - 952 Seiten
...emphasis and rapidity. and continued, with ivn diminished ardour, for half an hour, or an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail glistening with white,...buoyant gaiety of his action arresting the eye, as his soag moat irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic eestacv— he mounts and descends... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 Seiten
...hour, or an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most...descends as his song swells or dies away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " He bounds aloft " with the celerity of an arrow,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 Seiten
...hour, or an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most...ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or die* away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has beautifully expressed it, ' He bounds aloft with the celerity... | |
 | 1819 - 424 Seiten
...emphasis and rapidity, and continued with undiminished ardour for half an hour or an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail glistening with white,...mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; und, as my friend Mr. Bartram hag beautifully expressed it, " He bounds aloft with the celerity of... | |
 | 1820 - 422 Seiten
...emphasis and .rapidity, and continued with undiminished ardour for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. His expanded wings and tail glistening with white,...mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away. While exerting himself, a bystander, destitute of sight, would suppose that the whole feathered tribe... | |
 | 1837 - 604 Seiten
...emphasis and rapidity ; and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour or an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white,...and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, * Harrington. t Infessores — Perching birds. I Falco musicus of Uundin. ( Orpheus polyglottus. as... | |
 | 1826 - 376 Seiten
...imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity, and continued with undiminished ardour. The buoyant gaiety of his action arresting the eye, as his song most irresistably does the ear, he sweeps round with an enthusiastic ecstacy ; he mounts and descends as... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 Seiten
...withundin fmished ardour, for half an hour or an hour at a time. His" expanded wings and tail glittering with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action arresting...irresistibly does the ear, he sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; which has thus been beautifully... | |
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... for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear, he sweeps round with enthusiastic... 
