 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; * [" Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard, the winning of the lapwing,... | |
 | William Thompson - 1850 - 378 pages
...some old people recitc a doggrel rhyme of the bittern may also be from personal observation : — " Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...rivers must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard,* the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...pursuit lay more at right angles with the vision of the pursuer." CHAP. VI. OF THE RITTERN, OR MIRE-URFM. THOSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...proverb, " not to know a hawk from a hundsaw." — MONTAGUE'S ÜKNTIIIOLOUICAL Ü1CTION.VHY. CHAP. VI. THE BITTERN, OR MIRE-DRUM* THOSE who have walked in...evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers musí remember a variety of note* frum different water-fowl : — the loud scream of the wild goose,... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...the prophecy was fulfilled by a less dread completion. " Those who have walked," says Goldsmith, " in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl; the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintaitrd its man ; * ["Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy...variety of notes from different water- fowl: the loud seream of the wild-goose, the eroaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...its nest, the spot where all its affections are centered; the spot that has prompted all this joy. THE BITTERN OR MIRE-DRUM. Those who have walked in...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...taught him "the art, still survived about the year 1787." Prior, i. 116. t Shaw Mason, iii. 358. J ' ' Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl ; the loud ' ' scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...purchased an estate near Ballymahoo, and ejected many of his tenants for non-payment of their rente. 3 "Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl : the loud scream of the wild-goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1854 - 208 pages
...poets , and naturalists. Col. Montague observes: "Those who have \yalked, on a summer's evening, Ъу the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a 'variety of notes from different water fowl, ; the_loud seream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the i whining of the lapwing, and... | |
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Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing... 
