Insecta. 1832

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Geo. B. Whittaker, 1832
 

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Seite 252 - Sweet prophet of the summer, says Anacreon, addressing this insect ; the muses love thee ; Phoebus himself loves thee, and has given thee a shrill song ; old age does not wear thee out ; thou art wise, earth-born, musical, impassive, without blood ; thou art almost like a God.
Seite 317 - Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew. Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipped in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Seite 313 - which filled the air over the current of the river, and over the bank on which I stood, are neither to be expressed nor conceived. When the snow falls with the largest flakes, and with the least interval between them, the air is not so full of them as that which surrounded us was of Ephemerae.
Seite 317 - The impending woe sat heavy on his breast. He summons straight his denizens of air; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair: Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. Some to the sun their insect wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold.
Seite 207 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of some broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumnal storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Seite 206 - Tangiers, before the plague in 1799, the face of the earth was covered by them. At that time a singular incident occurred at El Araiche. The whole region from the confines of the Sahara was ravaged by them; but on the other side of the river El Kos, not one of them was to be seen, although there was nothing to prevent their flying over it.
Seite 730 - Between the little harbour of Higuerote* and the mouth of the Rio Unare, the wretched inhabitants are accustomed, to stretch themselves on the ground, and pass the night buried in the sand three or four inches deep, leaving out the head only, which they cover with a handkerchief.
Seite 180 - Ui. 262, tor had willed that the insect world should combine within itself examples of all that is most remarkable in every other department of nature, — still more nearly approaches the habits of the hen in her care of her family. She absolutely sits upon her eggs as if to hatch them — a fact which Frisch appears first to have noticed — and guards them with the greatest care. De Geer...
Seite 727 - ... of other climates. Thus we are told that in the year 1736 they were so numerous that vast columns of them were seen to rise in the air from Salisbury cathedral, which at a distance resembled columns of smoke, and occasioned many people to think that the cathedral was on fire. A similar occurrence, in like manner giving rise to an alarm of the church being on fire, took place in July, 1812, at Sagan, in Silesia. In the following year, at Norwich, in May, at about six o'clock in the evening, the...
Seite 197 - Though they are frequently heard by day, yet their natural time of motion is only in the night. As soon as it becomes dusk the chirping increases, and they come running forth, and are often to be seen in great numbers, from the size of a flea to that of their full stature.

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