 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...associations which they promote than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field. cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights...of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 10th of March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and...of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 1 Oth of March, the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1843 - 452 pages
...us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody ; nor do harsh sounds always displease.— Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and...filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." One of these crickets when confined in a paper cage... | |
 | Sights - 1844 - 104 pages
...give us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody; nor do harsh sounds always displease. Thus, the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights THE MOLE CRICKET. some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pages
...displease. — Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvelously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." One of these crickets when confined in a paper cage... | |
 | Analecta Hellenica - 1849 - 562 pages
...captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and...filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." 12 — 14. iiXfoStri ¡niv a'e Mavam, t. т. X.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and...filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the tenth of March the crickets appear at the... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...sight of them.' There is also another equally decisive ; for the same interesting naturalist remarks, ' The shrilling of the fieldcricket, though sharp and...of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous ;' for in this volume there is many an association with the bright sunshine, roses, and strawberries... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 pages
...captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and...of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. About the 10th of March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and... | |
 | Four little wise ones - 1853 - 456 pages
...melody; nor do harsh sounds always displease. Thus the shrilling of the achata campestris, field cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights...everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." " Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And... | |
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Sounds do not always give us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody, nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling... 
