 | 1825 - 512 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it...confidence have rendered it respected by the most hungry sportsmen. I could not, on this occasion, view its little nest, placed on the breast of infancy, without... | |
 | 1825 - 502 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it...been considered by us as the robin of these dreary wild», and its lively chirp and fearless confidence have rendered it respected by the most hungry... | |
 | George Francis Lyon - 1825 - 758 pages
...forsaken, neatly built uest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it...been considered by us as the robin of these dreary 1824. wilds, and its lively chirp and fearless conn- August. dence have rendered it respected by the... | |
 | George Francis Lyon - 1825 - 244 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow buntin has all the domestic virtues of "our English red-breast, it...been considered by us as the robin of these dreary 1824. wilds, and its lively chirp and fearless conn- August. dence have rendered it respected by the... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1832 - 516 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...poetically expressing the feelings it excited."* The bold * Narrative of an Attempt to reach Repulse Bay. navigator may rest assured that his simple recital... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1833 - 388 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...little nest placed on the breast of infancy, without wish' ing that I possessed the power of poetically expressing th« feelings it excited."* The bold... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 pages
...forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...poetically expressing the feelings it excited."* The bold navigator may rest assured that his simple recital of this circumstance is much more effective... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...forsaken, neatly built-nest was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...confidence have rendered it respected by the most hungry sportsmen. I could not on this occasion view its little nest, placed on the breast of infancy, without... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1846 - 190 pages
...forsaken, neatly-built nest was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...poetically expressing the feelings it excited." The above representation of this little bird may interest the reader, although the scenery by which he... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 400 pages
...forsaken, neatly-built nest was found placed on the neck of the child. As the enow-bunting has all the domestic virtues of our English redbreast, it...of poetically expressing the feelings it excited."* — P. 68-69. The farther they proceeded to the northward up the Welcome, the more sluggish and irregular... | |
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As the snow buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it has always been considered by us as the robin of these dreary wilds, and its lively chirp and fearless confidence have rendered it respected by the most hungry sportsmen. 
