A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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... Sounds from Animate Natnre Sounds from Inanimate Nature Speckled Creeper Spotted Tattler Summer Yellow - Bird Swallows their Hibernation . Swan : Swamp - Sparrow • R. Picus Carolinus Picus erythrocephalus Muscicapa ruticilla Turdus ...
... Sounds from Animate Natnre Sounds from Inanimate Nature Speckled Creeper Spotted Tattler Summer Yellow - Bird Swallows their Hibernation . Swan : Swamp - Sparrow • R. Picus Carolinus Picus erythrocephalus Muscicapa ruticilla Turdus ...
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... sounds . But the more simple melodies and less attractive colors and forms , that appeal to the imagination for their principal effect , are felt only by individuals of a poetic temperament . In proportion as we have been trained to be ...
... sounds . But the more simple melodies and less attractive colors and forms , that appeal to the imagination for their principal effect , are felt only by individuals of a poetic temperament . In proportion as we have been trained to be ...
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... sounds that proceed from the animate and the inanimate world are we capable of being happy without resorting to vulgar and costly recreations . Then will the aspects of nature , continually changing with the progress of the seasons ...
... sounds that proceed from the animate and the inanimate world are we capable of being happy without resorting to vulgar and costly recreations . Then will the aspects of nature , continually changing with the progress of the seasons ...
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... sound . A loud crash of thunder deafens and terrifies , but its low and distant rum- bling produces a pleasant emotion ... sounds have become anodynes for his sorrow ; and those who have this mental alembic for turning grief into poetic ...
... sound . A loud crash of thunder deafens and terrifies , but its low and distant rum- bling produces a pleasant emotion ... sounds have become anodynes for his sorrow ; and those who have this mental alembic for turning grief into poetic ...
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... the Canary , but they are more subdued and plaintive , and have a reedy sound which is not perceptible in the Canary's tones . This bird is somewhat periodical in his singing habits , 16 BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD .
... the Canary , but they are more subdued and plaintive , and have a reedy sound which is not perceptible in the Canary's tones . This bird is somewhat periodical in his singing habits , 16 BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD .
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