| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 páginas
...evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the...the tremulous neighing of the jack snipe. But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern. It is impossible for... | |
| 1843 - 684 páginas
...various notes of the secluded inhabitants of the banks of the unfrequented rivers, whether we consider the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, or the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe, there is no tone so dismally hollow as the booming of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 páginas
...unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water fowl-, the loud scream of the wiW goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe. But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 páginas
...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe. But. of all these sounds, there is none so dismally hollow 'as the booming of the bittern.... | |
| Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 páginas
...evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different waterfowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the...the tremulous neighing of the jack snipe. But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the Bittern. It is impossible for... | |
| James Rennie - 1833 - 422 páginas
...evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the...of the lap-wing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe. But of all those sounds there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.... | |
| George Montagu - 1831 - 670 páginas
...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe. But of all these sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the Bittern.... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 páginas
...mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack snipe. But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the Bittern. It is impossible for words to give those who have not heard this evening call an adequate idea of its... | |
| James Rennie - 1833 - 410 páginas
...evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the...of the lap-wing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack-snipe. But of all those sounds there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.... | |
| Frederic Shoberl - 1836 - 296 páginas
...an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the Wild Goose, the...of the Lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the Jack-Snipe. But of all those sounds there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the Bittern.... | |
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