The Quarterly Review, Volume 288William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1950 |
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Page 246
... lapwing , it must be remembered , makes considerable use of its wings for sound - effects in spring display , also the American night - hawk whose solemn twanging note is produced merely by a tilt of widespread pinions as it swoops ...
... lapwing , it must be remembered , makes considerable use of its wings for sound - effects in spring display , also the American night - hawk whose solemn twanging note is produced merely by a tilt of widespread pinions as it swoops ...
Page 247
... lapwing's call . ' Where none but the tumbling peewit weeps , ' wrote the present Poet Laureate , a surprising amount of Natural History lore being expressed in that single line . Oddly enough , a lapwing sounds much less lugubrious ...
... lapwing's call . ' Where none but the tumbling peewit weeps , ' wrote the present Poet Laureate , a surprising amount of Natural History lore being expressed in that single line . Oddly enough , a lapwing sounds much less lugubrious ...
Page 249
... lapwing and the snipe , ' but since these ' tune their songs , ' the inclusion of the songless snipe in that particular chorus was not a happy choice . C 6 Poets from the earliest to the latest have recognised the lapwing . They could ...
... lapwing and the snipe , ' but since these ' tune their songs , ' the inclusion of the songless snipe in that particular chorus was not a happy choice . C 6 Poets from the earliest to the latest have recognised the lapwing . They could ...
Contents
JANUARY 1950 | 1 |
THE STORY OF A GERMAN | 7 |
Britains Contribution to Her Own Food Supply | 10 |
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