 | 1856 - 526 pàgines
...Humming Bird plumage, in which — " Each rapid movement gives a different dye : Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade, now like a furnace glow." Several theories have been propounded to account for this iris-like play of colours, and sudden variations... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1856 - 108 pàgines
...gloom of the woodland depths. "Each rapid movement gives a different dye, Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade— now like a furnace glow," Travellers have again and again expressed their admiration at the lively motions and splendid appearance... | |
 | Coronal - 1858 - 308 pàgines
...tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye, Like scales of burnish'd gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade, now like a furnace glow." — WILSON. " WHEBE," says the celebrated naturalist, Audubon, " is the person who, on seeing this... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pàgines
...tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnish'd gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow." VOL. II.— 14 THE SUPERCILIOUS HUMMING-BIRD AND NEST. The other species known in the United States... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pàgines
...in mingled radiance10 fly! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; ' ' Like scales of burnish'd gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade, now. like a furnace glow." 8. Humming-birds were long supposed to feed only upon the honey or sweet juices of flowers, but later... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pàgines
...tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow." No sooner, indeed, has the returning sun again introduced the vernal season, and caused millions of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pàgines
...in mingled radiance 10 fly! Each rapid movement gives a different dye ; n Like scales of burnish'd gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade, now like a furnace glow." 8. Humming-birds were long supposed to feed only upon the honey or sweet juices of flowers, but later... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 808 pàgines
...their brilliant colors. Each rapid movement Drives a different dy«; Like scales of burnish'd cnld they dazzling show, Now sink to shade, now like a furnace glow. 'WTien hovering over a flower in which they arc feeding, their wings are moved so rapidly that they... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pàgines
...the greatest advantage : — " Each rapid movement gives a different dye; Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show, Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow." But when performing a lengthened flight, as during migration, they pass through the air in long undulations,... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pàgines
...tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow." — WILSON. STEBN, bigoted, and cruel, were those fierce rapacious men, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico... | |
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Sips with inserted tube, the honeyed blooms, And chirps his gratitude as round he roams; While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast; What heav'nly tints in mingling radiance fly! Each rapid movement... 
