 | 1826 - 626 pages
...all animated nature besides is sunk in dead silence. ' We now hear his toll,' says Mr. Waterton, ' and then a pause for a minute, then another toll and...eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.' Addressing the ' courteous reader,' our Wanderer says, — • ' When in thy hammock, should the thought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...all animated nature besides is suuk in dead silence. ' We now hear his toll,' says Mr. Waterton, ' and then a pause for a minute, then another toll and...for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and soon.' Addressing the ' courteous reader,' our Wanderer says, — ' When in thy hammock, should the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 pages
...campanen itill cheers the forent. You hear his toll, and :hen a pause for a minute, then another toll, ml then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause....for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and on." Then comes the author's flourish — " Acteon would stop in mid chase, Maria would defer her evening... | |
 | Cowper Rose - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 330 pages
...cold shadows over half the valley, the silent shady river, darkened by the gloomy foliage on panero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then...eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on." — This bird is a native of Guiana. its banks, the hushed and dreamy stillness, save when the distant... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the Campanero still...eight minutes ; and then another toll, and so on." The most anxious travellers cannot refuse to pause and listen to him, so sweet, so novel, and romantic... | |
 | Charles Waterton - America - 1836 - 362 pages
...morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still...another toll, and so on. Acteon would stop in mid chace, Maria would defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...are silent, the forest is still cheered by this bird. " You hear his toll," says Waterton", "and then pause for a minute; then another toll, and then a...toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for six 6*r eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on. Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen... | |
 | Mary Roberts - Natural history - 1839 - 312 pages
...astonishment as the toll of the campanero. You may hear his toll, and then he pauses for a minute; then a toll, and again a pause. Then he is silent for perhaps a quarter of an hour, again a toll is heard, and all is still again. "Actseon," as Waterton... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...the forest is still cheered by this bird. " You hear his toll," says Waterton, " and then there is a pause for a minute ; then another toll, and then...Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then there is another toll, and so on. Orpheus himself would drop his lute to listen to him, so sweet, so... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...morning and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the campanero still...for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and OLD HUMPHREY ON ORPHANS. WERE a Christian philanthropist to pass through the world without thinking... | |
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Whip-poor-Will,' from the goatsucker, cause such astonishment, as the toll of the Campanero. With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of... 
