... enabling our youth to become more intimately acquainted with this charming portion of the feathered creation, I should have succeeded in multiplying their virtuous enjoyments, and in rendering them more humane to those little choristers, how gratifying... Chamber and cage birds, tr. by W.E. Shuckard - 第 iii 頁Johann Matthaeus Bechstein 著 - 1871完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 頁
...more humane to those little choristers, how gratifying to my heart would be the reflection ! For to me it appears, that of all inferior creatures Heaven...intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man ; to sooth and exhilarate him in his labours by their varied melody, of which no other creature, but... | |
| William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger - 1852 - 106 頁
...humane to those little choristers, how gratifying to my heart would be the reflection ! For, to me, it appears that, of all inferior creatures, Heaven...intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man ; to soothe and exhilarate him in his labors by their varied melody, of which no other creature but... | |
| Johann Matthäus Bechstein - 1871 - 510 頁
...translated many times. The present edition has had the advantage of being revised by Mr. Barnesby, one of the most eminent of our breeders of fancy birds....felt when he wrote — " The birds around me hopped aiid played, Their thoughts I cannot measure ; But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill... | |
| 1872 - 728 頁
...humane to those little choristers, how gratifying to my heart would be the reflection ! For, to me, it appears that, of all inferior creatures, Heaven...intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man ; to soothe and exhilarate him in his labors by their varied melody, of which no other creature but... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 頁
...more humane to those little choristers, how gratifying to my heart would be the reflection ! For to me it appears that, of all inferior creatures, Heaven...intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man, to soothe and exhilarate him in his labours by their varied melody, of which no other creature but... | |
| William Jardine - 1869 - 552 頁
...&c. " ROBERT BURNS." INCESSORES. INTRODUCTION. For to me it appears, that, of all inferior ereatures, Heaven seems to have intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man ; to soothe and exhilarate him in his labours by their varied melody ; to prevent the increase of those... | |
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