I remember in the place where I was a boy, with what .terror this bird's note affected the whole village; they considered it as the presage of some sad event, and generally found or made ope to succeed it. The Domestic Habits of Birds - Pągina 240per James Rennie - 1833 - 379 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pągines
...mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. I remember in the place where I was a boy with what...village ; they considered it as the presage of some ead event ; and generally found or made one to succeed it. CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH ABOUT BIRDS. Having... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 642 pągines
...Bryanton, " by frequently thinking > ' ' none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern ... I remember in the place " where I was a boy, with...terror this bird's note affected the whole village." Animated Nature (Ed. 1816), iv. 316-18. " Among thy glades, a solitary gnest, " The hollow sounding... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pągines
...all the green ; These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more. with what terror this bird's note affected the whole village : they considered it as a presage of some aad event, and generally found or made one to succeed it." — History of Animated... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pągines
...mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. I remember in the place where I was a boy with what...affected the whole village: they considered it as a presage of some sad event, and generally found or made one to succeed it." — Animated Nature, vol.... | |
| John George Wood - 1869 - 758 pągines
...echoes of a hollow hill. " Under the same title Goldsmith writes of it in las 'i Animate 1 Nature." " I remember, in the place where I was a boy, with what terror the bird's note affected the whole village, — they considered it as the presage of some sad event,... | |
| John George Wood - 1870 - 744 pągines
...echoes of a hollow hill. " Under the same title Goldsmith writes of it in his "Animated Nature." " I remember, in the place where I was a boy, with what terror the bird's note affected the whole village, — they considered it as the presage of some sad event,... | |
| James Edmund Harting - 1871 - 354 pągines
...observation, and he, too, calls it the " night-raven." Its hollow boom, he says, caused it to be held in detestation by the vulgar. " I remember, in the place where I was a boy, with what terror the bird's note affected the whole village ; they considered it as the presage of some sad event, and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 80 pągines
...from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. / remember in the place where 1 was a boy with what terror this bird's note affected the whole village ; they considered it as a presage of some sad event, and generally found or made one to succeed it." 45 lapwing—also called... | |
| John Forster - 1873 - 806 pągines
...enough to "earn his dinner. Then perhaps "there's more wit and learning "among the Irish? Oh, lord! " remember in the place where I was a "boy, with what...terror this bird's note "affected the whole village." Animated Nntnre, (Ed. 1816) IV. 316-18. " Among thy glades , a solitary guest, "The hollow sounding... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1875 - 158 pągines
...jack-snipe. But of all these sounds there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern. . . . I remember in the place where I was a boy, with what...terror this bird's note affected the whole village." 51. Ill fares the land, etc. Cf. 295. The repetition of ill is probably, as Hales suggests, one of... | |
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