 You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.  The Intellectual Observer - Page 4011867Full view - About this book
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 pages
...Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and...Campanero. He is never seen to feed with the other Cotingas, nor is it known in what part of Guiana he makes his nest. TheToucan. While the Cotingas attract... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 pages
...minutes, and then another toll, and on." Then comes the author's flourish — " Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop us lute to listen to him ; so sweet, so novel, and romantic is the toll of the pretty snowvhite campanero.... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 286 pages
...Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and...is the toll of the pretty snow-white campanero."* THE CAMPANERO, OR BELL-BIRD. The morning light is round me spread, And I must quit my forest bed. A... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 pages
...Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and...is the toll of the pretty snow-white campanero."* THE CAMPANERO, OR BELL-BIRD. The morning light is round me spread, And I must quit my forest bed. A... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pages
...minutes ; and then another toll, and so on." The most anxious travellers cannot refuse to pause and listen to him, so sweet, so novel, and romantic is the toll of the pretty snow-white Campanero. Of his nest we know nothing. The true Manakins, forming the restricted genus Pipra, are very numerous,... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1836 - 362 pages
...silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chace, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself...campanero. He is never seen to feed with the other cotingas, nor is it known in what part of Guiana he makes his nest. While the cotingas attract your... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for six 6*r eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him...Campanero. He is never seen to feed with the other Cotingas ; nor is it known in what part of Guiana he makes his nest b. * Wanderings in South America,... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1839 - 312 pages
...hour, again a toll is heard, and all is still again. "Actseon," as Waterton observes, " would halt in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would stop his lute to listen, so sweet, so novel, and romantic is the toll of the pretty snow-white campanero."... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 pages
...again a pause. Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then there is another toll, and so on. Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him,...the toll of the pretty snow-white campanero. He is neve rseen to feed with the other cotingas, nor is it known in what part of Guiana he makes his nest."... | |
 | William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 pages
...cock distinctly shout Vi - ve l'Em-pe - reur! would stop,*nd Orpheus would drop his lute to listen — so sweet, so novel, and romantic, is the toll of the pretty snow-white campnnero. * That great observer, the Rev. Mr. White of Selborne, informs us, that a chicken of four... | |
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