A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 7
... mind . The ignorant and rude are dazzled and delighted by the display of gorgeous splendor , and charmed by loud and stirring sounds . But the more simple melodies and less attractive colors and forms , that appeal to the imagination ...
... mind . The ignorant and rude are dazzled and delighted by the display of gorgeous splendor , and charmed by loud and stirring sounds . But the more simple melodies and less attractive colors and forms , that appeal to the imagination ...
Page 8
... mind without tasking its powers . Those quiet emotions , half musical and half poetical , which are awakened by the songs of birds , be- long to this class of refined enjoyments . But the music of birds , though delightful to all , con ...
... mind without tasking its powers . Those quiet emotions , half musical and half poetical , which are awakened by the songs of birds , be- long to this class of refined enjoyments . But the music of birds , though delightful to all , con ...
Page 9
... mind . Though the song of a bird is without words , how plainly does it suggest a long train of agreeable images of love , beauty , friendship , and home ! When a young person is affected with grief , he seldom fails , if endowed with a ...
... mind . Though the song of a bird is without words , how plainly does it suggest a long train of agreeable images of love , beauty , friendship , and home ! When a young person is affected with grief , he seldom fails , if endowed with a ...
Page 61
... minds which often causes every man publicly to praise what each one privately condemns , thus creating a spurious public opinion . It is the same I shall not ask pardon of those critics who are always canting about musical " power ...
... minds which often causes every man publicly to praise what each one privately condemns , thus creating a spurious public opinion . It is the same I shall not ask pardon of those critics who are always canting about musical " power ...
Page 70
... mind , we shall all be reduced to a sudden ignorance of everything we once knew , and ren- dered incapable of talking or writing without constant reference to a new dictionary of terms , the Meadow- Lark may yet be discovered to be no ...
... mind , we shall all be reduced to a sudden ignorance of everything we once knew , and ren- dered incapable of talking or writing without constant reference to a new dictionary of terms , the Meadow- Lark may yet be discovered to be no ...
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