Cats and Dogs: Or, Notes and Anecdotes of Two Great Families of the Animal KingdomT. Nelson and Sons, 1868 - 240 páginas |
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Página 153 - I cried, Shall hear of this thy deed: My dog shall mortify the pride Of man's superior breed: But chief myself I will enjoin, Awake at duty's call, To show a love as prompt as thine To Him who gives me all.
Página 20 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect ; and in thy book all my members were written, when as yet there was none of them.
Página vi - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Página 158 - I remember seeing long ago a picture, by one of the old masters, of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden...
Página 87 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Página 68 - We hardly know,' continues the Captain, ' a sound which partakes less of harmony than that which is at present in question ; and indeed the sudden burst of the answering long-protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder-clap immediately after a flash of lightning. The effect of this music is very much increased when the first note is heard in the distance (a circumstance which often occurs), and the answering yell bursts out...
Página 138 - Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died, The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side: How nourished here for such long time He knows who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Página 144 - BERNARD. the Great St. Bernard, one of those high mountains of the Alps which are covered with almost perpetual snow, is this convent situated. There the terrible avalanches often fall into the plains below, and the hollow places of the mountains, with a noise like thunder. These are great masses of snow, which hang so loosely on the sides of the mountains that the slightest sound which causes the air to tremble, and so give...
Página 107 - ... look outside like rockets and squibs rising suddenly out of the snow ; and round this fire all the family are gathered. The men put their implements for fishing and hunting in order, and the women sew together the skins that are worn for garments ; and altogether there is a kind of rude comfort which we can manage to put up with for a while. The dogs lie burrowing in the snow outside, and every six or eight hours set up a great howling like wolves — whom, indeed, they much resemble in appearance,...
Página 108 - ... altogether there is a kind of rude comfort which we can manage to put up with for a while. The dogs lie burrowing in the snow outside, and every six or eight hours set up a great howling like wolves — whom, indeed, they much resemble in appearance, for the dogs in those regions are liker wolves than in any other part of the world. When the family meal is over, they will come in and get their share of the remains, and then they will go out and burrow in the snow again. All this goes on pretty...