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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... "
The Natural History of Selborne - Página 279
por Gilbert White - 1842 - 335 páginas
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The Beasts, Birds, and Bees of Virgil: A Naturalist's Handbook to the Georgics

Thomas Fletcher Royds - 1918 - 138 páginas
...and Insects other than Bees hot weather, when they are most vigorous, they make the hills echo. . . . The shrilling of the field cricket, though • sharp...everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.' The reTTtf, or cicada, seems to have had much the same effect on the Greeks and Romans, as Anacreon's...
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A Monograph of the British Orthoptera

William John Lucas - 1920 - 406 páginas
...as the summer advances, and so die away again by degrees. . . . The shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights...is rural, verdurous, and joyous. " About the 10th March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and bore, and shape very...
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Adventures Among Birds

William Henry Hudson - 1920 - 342 páginas
...given by Gilbert White in his description of an insect. "The shrilling of the field cricket," he says, "though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights...everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." There can be no such "train of ideas" nor any vague sense of happiness due to association caused by...
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A Hind in Richmond Park

William Henry Hudson - 1922 - 360 páginas
...case of the "cricket on the hearth"; also of the field cricket when we remember Gilbert White's words: "Thus the shrilling of the field cricket, though sharp...of everything that is rural, verdurous and joyous." Into this question we need not go, but I am convinced that there are many insects in this order that...
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HAM PSHIRE DAYS

W.H.HUDSON - 1923 - 368 páginas
...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. The delight I know, but I cannot wholly agree with the explanation. A couple of months before this...
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Fact, Fancy and Opinion: Examples of Present Day Writing

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1923 - 430 páginas
...' ' The shrilling of the field cricket, ' ' he says, "though sharp and stridulous, yet marvelously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a...everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." There can be no such "train of ideas" nor any vague sense of happiness due to association caused by...
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The Living Age, Volumen233

1902 - 868 páginas
...the shrilling of the field cricket, though sharp 276 277 and stridulous, yet marvellously deli?bts some hearers, filling their minds with a train of...of everything that is rural, verdurous and joyous." The delight I know, but I cannot wholly agree with the explanation. A couple of months before this...
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Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson, Volumen10

Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 páginas
...notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvelously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a...of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous. (2.2.6) Like his contemporaries whom we have been considering, White combines factual accuracy with...
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Riviera Nature Notes

George Edward Comerford Casey - 2004 - 362 páginas
...authority which no naturalist will venture to impugn. Says Gilbert White: "Sounds do not always gives us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody:...everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous." To dig out a Mole Cricket is an almost hopeless task, but I have heard that they may be captured in...
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Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science, Volúmenes4-6

Delaware County Institute of Science (Delaware County, Pa.) - 1909 - 570 páginas
...always give us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody ; nor do harsh sounds always displease. Thus the shrilling of the field cricket, though sharp...filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous and joyous." "Sounds inharmonious in themselves anil harsh. Vet...
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