Episodes of insect life. By Acheta DomesticaReeve, Benham, 1851 - Insects |
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accustomed amongst animals ant-lion antennæ beautiful bird boat-flies body brilliant BURYING BEETLE butterfly caterpillar chrysalides churchyard beetle Coleoptera colour common crane-fly creature cricket curious dark death death-watch death's-head devouring earth eggs entomologist excavated eyes fancy Father Longlegs field cricket fire-fly flea flies flowers Fulgora glowworm grass grasshopper green ground grub habits head Histerida ichneumon insect instinct jaws Kirby labours lady Lampyrida lantern-flies larva larvæ latter legs less light living locust look luminous maternal moniment moth mother native naturalist nature nest never night noticed object observed Ogre once parasitic perfect perhaps Piccoletta pinions pitfall POPPY BEE prey quadrupeds race Réaumur resembling Scarabæus seemed seen singular Sir Timothy species spider strange summer supposed terror thou thought tick Tim's Tipula tomb Tomkins trees tribe usually Vignette wasp water-scorpion wing-cases wingless wings wonder yellow
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Page 147 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Page 345 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 18 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page xvii - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice; Man for thee does sow and plow; Farmer he, and landlord thou...
Page 5 - To thee of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know! But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Page 147 - These are thy wonders, Lord of love, To make us see we are but flowers that glide : Which when we once can find and prove, Thou hast a garden for us, where to bide. Who would be more, Swelling through store, Forfeit their Paradise by their pride.
Page 195 - Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
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