 | 1845 - 808 páginas
...fell gently on the grass, his wings became expanded a trifle or so, and he died while I was looking on Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion...that notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed He never even uttered his wonted cry, nor so much as a sound, to indicate what he felt within." Mr... | |
 | 1845 - 812 páginas
...fell geutly on the grass, his wings became expanded a trifle or so, and he died while I was looking on Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion...that notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed He never even uttered his wonted cry, nor so much as a sound, to indicate what he felt within." Mr... | |
 | 1845 - 814 páginas
...fell gently on the grass, his wings became expanded a trifle or so, and he died while I was looking on Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion...that notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed He never even uttered his wonted cry, nor so much as a sound, to indicate what he felt within." Mr... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 páginas
...fell gently on the grass, his wings became expanded a trifle or so, and he died while I was looking on Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion...swan, still I felt anxious to hear some plaintive syund or other, some soft inflection of the voice, which might tend to justify that notion in a small... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1846 - 392 páginas
...Stagna col it, patutosque Incus ; ignemque perosus, Qua; colat, elegit contraria flumina fiammis." Once I had an opportunity, which rarely occurs, of...of melody from the mouth of the dying swan, still 1 felt anxious to hear some plaintive sound or other, some soft inflection of the voice, which might... | |
 | James Edmund Harting (naturaliste).) - 1871 - 364 páginas
...rarely occurs, of seeing a swan die from natural causes. " Although I gave no credence," he says,* " to the extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained...notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed. He nodded, and then tried to recover himself, and then nodded again, and again held up his head ; till,... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 páginas
...Charles Waterton once had an opportunity of seeing a swan die. " Although I gave no credence," he says, " to the extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained...notion in a small degree, but I was disappointed. He nodded, and then tried to recover himself, and then nodded again, and again held up his head, till,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 762 páginas
...causes. 'Although I gave no credence,' he says (Essays on Natural History, second series, p. 128), 'to the extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained...notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed. He nodded and then tried to recover himself, and then nodded again, and again held up his head; till,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 760 páginas
...causes. 'Although I gave no credence,' he says (Essays on Natural History, second series, p. 128), 'to the extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained...notion in a small degree. But I was disappointed. He nodded and then tried to recover himself, and then nodded again, and again held up his head; till,... | |
 | 1844 - 768 páginas
...is, and still read with boyish ardor as he sits up in trees, he is forced to object to the song of THE DYING SWAN. " Once I had an opportunity, which...melody from the mouth of the dying swan, still I felt 404 ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTOKY. anxious to hear some plaintive sound or other, some soft inflection... | |
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Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion which antiquity had entertained of melody from the mouth of the dying swan, still I felt anxious to hear some plaintive sound or other, some soft inflection of the voice, which might tend to justify... 