The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American Ornithologist: For the First Time Fully Collected and Compared with the Original and Early Editions, Mss., Etc, 第 1 卷A. Gardner, 1876 |
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acquainted affectionate agreeable ALEX ALEXANDER WILSON American Ornithology amusement appearance arrival Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Bartram's Gardens bawbee beautiful birds Burntisland called dear friend DEAR SIR distant dollars drawings DUNCAN Edinburgh engaged Falkirk father favour feet forest GEORGE ORD give Gray's Ferry happy havo hear heard heart honour hope horse hundred Indian interesting Jefferson journey kind labour LETTER liberty live Lochwinnoch look miles Milestown miserable morning Musselburgh Natural History naturalists never night obliged observed Paisley particular passed Pedlar perhaps Philadelphia pleasure plumage poem poor present Purple Martin received Renfrewshire river Scotland season Seedhills seemed seen shore sincere solitary song soon species streets subscribers thing thousand tion told town trees volume weaver week whole WILLIAM BARTRAM William Duncan winter wish woods wretched write
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第 264 頁 - The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his gra?p ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
第 263 頁 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
第 281 頁 - ... the piazza, where by its call it soon attracted the passing flocks, such is the attachment they have for each other. Numerous parties frequently alighted on the trees immediately above, keeping up a constant conversation with the prisoner. One of these...
第 98 頁 - I sometimes smile to think that while others are immersed in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandizement — in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over the plumage of a lark, or gazing like a despairing lover, on the lineaments of an owl.
第 98 頁 - I have had live crows, hawks, and owls ; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner of it, and, in this particular, our parallel does not altogether tally.
第 263 頁 - He is therefore found at all seasons in the countries which he inhabits; but prefers such places as have been mentioned above, from the great partiality he has for fish. " In procuring these he displays, in a very singular manner, the genius and energy of his character, which is fierce, contemplative, daring and tyrannical: attributes not exerted but on particular occasions; but when put forth, overpowering all opposition.
第 295 頁 - Yet, that some definite conception may be formed of this extent, let us suppose, that this little bird flies, in his usual way, at the rate of one mile in a minute, which, from the many experiments I have made, I believe to be within the truth ; and that he is so engaged for ten hours every day...
第 liii 頁 - In the course of our conversation, he told me that he had finished several pieces ; among the rest, two farces, and an English translation of the 'Gentle Shepherd.
第 275 頁 - Auratus) where he was saluted with such rudeness, and received such a drubbing from the lord of the manor, for entering his premises, that, to save his life, I was obliged to take him out again. I then put him into another cage, where the only tenant was a female...
第 264 頁 - These predatory attacks and defensive manœuvres of the eagle and the fish-hawk are matters of daily observation along the whole of our seaboard, from Georgia to New England, and frequently excite great interest in the spectators. Sympathy, however, on this as on most other occasions, generally sides with the honest and laborious sufferer, in opposition to the attacks of power, injustice, and rapacity, qualities for which our hero is so generally notorious, and which, in his superior, man, are certainly...