| National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 692 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arrests the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy ; he mounts and descends ns his song swells and dies away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arrest the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy, he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away, and, as one has beautifully expressed it, "... | |
| 1883 - 456 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has beautifully... | |
| Edward Augustus Samuels - 1883 - 666 Seiten
...wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear, he sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy ; he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, as my friend Mr. Bertram has beautifully... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 650 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arrests the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy; he mounts and descends as his song swells and dies away. While thus exerting himself, a bystander destitute... | |
| 1885 - 456 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy—he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 Seiten
...wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear. He sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy—he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away; and, as my friend Mr. Bartram has... | |
| James William Buel - 1891 - 748 Seiten
...expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his actions arresting the eye as his song most irresistibly does the ear, he sweeps...mounts or descends as his song swells or dies away. While thus exerting BKOWN THRUSH. himself, a bystander destitute of sight would suppose that the whole... | |
| Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 Seiten
...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 ecstasy and mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away. 'He bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if... | |
| 1837 - 610 Seiten
...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 ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells or dies away ; and, * Barrington. t Insessorea — Perching... | |
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