Falconry, its claims, history, and practice, by G.E. Freeman and F.H. Salvin. To which are added Remarks on training the otter and cormorant, by capt. SalvinLongman, Green, 1859 - 352 páginas |
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Página 3 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 202 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves; or, as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found...
Página 244 - I wrote an hour and a half in the morning, and an hour and a half in the evening.
Página 36 - He roved among the vales and streams, In the green wood and hollow dell ; They were his dwellings night and day, — But Nature ne'er could find the way Into the heart of Peter Bell. In vain, through every changeful year, Did Nature lead him as before ; A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Página 27 - The sportsmen in the train of the great were so onerous on lands, as to make the exemption of their visit a valuable privilege. Hence a king liberates some lands from those who carry with them hawks or falcons, horses or dogs.
Página 39 - Strips of leather by which- the bells are fastened to the legs. Bind. To cling to the quarry in the air.
Página 277 - Fork-tailed kites were much flown some years ago by the earl of Orford, in the neighbourhood of Alconbury Hill. A great owl, to the leg of which the falconers usually tie a fox's brush, not only to impede its flight, but to make it, as they fancy, more attractive, is thrown up to draw down the kite.
Página 27 - ... valuable presents in those days, when, the country being much overrun with wood, every species of the feathered race abounded in all parts. A king of Kent begged of a friend abroad two falcons of such skill and courage as to attack cranes willingly, and seizing them, to throw them to the ground. He says, he makes this request, because there were few hawks of that kind in Kent who produced good offspring, and who could be made agile and courageous enough in this art of warfare.
Página 38 - ... hawks ; secondly, the short-winged, or true hawks. In ' Falconry in the British Isles ' we find the following excellent definition of the two varieties : — The falcons or long-winged hawks are distinguished from the true or short-winged hawks by three never-failing characteristics, viz. by the tooth on the upper mandible (this in some of the foreign species is doubled), by the second feather of the wing being either the longest or equal in length to the third...