 With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll,...  A Dictionary of Birds - Page 29by Alfred Newton - 1893 - 1212 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 lehte
...the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the Campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another...or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop... | |
 | 1826 - 626 lehte
...all animated nature besides is sunk in dead silence. ' We now hear his toll,' says Mr. Waterton, ' and then a pause for a minute, then another toll and...eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.' Addressing the ' courteous reader,' our Wanderer says, — • ' When in thy hammock, should the thought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 lehte
...all animated nature besides is suuk in dead silence. ' We now hear his toll,' says Mr. Waterton, ' and then a pause for a minute, then another toll and...for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and soon.' Addressing the ' courteous reader,' our Wanderer says, — ' When in thy hammock, should the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 lehte
...campanen itill cheers the forent. You hear his toll, and :hen a pause for a minute, then another toll, ml then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause....for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and on." Then comes the author's flourish — " Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening... | |
 | Cowper Rose - 1829 - 338 lehte
...the silent shady river, darkened by the gloomy foliage on panero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute ; then another...eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on."— This bird is a native of Guiana. its banks, the hushed and dreamy stillness, save when the distant... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 lehte
...falconer or his attendalmost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute ; then another...or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 286 lehte
...the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute ; then another...or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 lehte
...the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the Campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll ; and then a pause for a minute ; then another...eight 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 lehte
...are silent, the forest is still cheered by this bird. " You hear his toll," says Waterton", "and then pause for a minute; then another toll, and then a...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... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1839 - 312 lehte
...astonishment as the toll of the campanero. You may hear his toll, and then he pauses for a minute; then a toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for perhaps a quarter of an hour, again a toll is heard, and all is still again. "Actseon," as Waterton... | |
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