The insect hunters; or, Entomology in verse [by E. Newman].E. Newman, 1857 - 86 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Ant Lion antennæ Bees beneath Blackheath Station body bristles Bugflies butterflies and night caterpillar Cicadas CICINDELINA clear wings Click Beetle Coleoptera colours creatures Culicina CURCULIONINA Dayfly devour dwellings eggs elbowed Entomology Feeding feet fivejointed flowers flying folded lengthwise fore legs Fore wings flat formed for leaping FORMICINA four wings fourjointed gaily Gallflies gently Ground Beetles Grub Haddo Villas hairy Half Wings Hemiptera hind wings honey Ichneumons imago kings and queens knobbed antennæ Lace Wings larva larvæ Laura leathery leaves living long antennæ meadow netlike never folded night moths nipped Orthoptera palings peduncle perfect insect Pismires plantlice pollen prothorax pupa pupa and imago pupæ Roof Wings rooflike Rove Beetles Rubywasps Sandwasps Sawflies sawlike Scale Wings serrated slender sly stone Sometimes Sphecina spiders Stegoptera sting straight sucking summer summit sunshine sweet swimming tail tell thee threadlike threejointed Tigers transparent Vespina Wasps Water Beetles Wings alike
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - Ye, who sometimes in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the tangled barberry-bushes Hang their tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses, Pause by some neglected grave-yard, For a while to muse, and ponder On a half-effaced inscription.
Página 83 - Husbandmen fondly doat upon thy friendship, Knowing thee guiltless of a thought to harm them ; Thee, mortals honour, sweet and tuneful songster, Prophet of summer. Thee, all the muses hail a kindred being ; Thee, great Apollo owns a dear companion ; Oh, it was he who gave that note of gladness, Wearisome, never. Songskilful, earthborn, mirth and music loving, Fairylike being, free from age and suffering, Passionless, purified from earth's defilement, Almost a spirit.
Página 68 - These are folded, too, beneath them, And all lying on the body : Their legs all alike and simple, Formed for running, not for leaping ; And their feet are all fivejointed.
Página 83 - Happy Cicada, perched on lofty branches, Deep in the forest, cheerful as a monarch, Tasting the dewdrops, making all the mountains Echo thy chirping. " Thine is each treasure that the earth produces ; Thine is the freshness of each field and forest ; Thine are the fruits, and thine are all the flowers Balmy Spring scatters.